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meted

verb as in administer, distribute

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The unfortunate reality is that race, gender, and economic status do matter when justice is meted out.

Will they escape the harsh punishment meted out to the Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ dancers?

It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions.

Draconian punishments were meted out to supposed sinners and traitors.

But in this case the system was exact and precise in the punishment meted out—he deserves every one of those 1,000 years.

He had meted out stern justice to his own son, when he had banished big Reginald to South America; but he had his virtues.

He had apparently forgotten the terrible role he had accepted and the doom he had meted out to her enemies.

A much milder punishment was meted out to the Comtesse de Soissons.

More tragic even was the punishment meted out to the Jewish informers who betrayed their people to the enemy.

Another bloody tyrant was dead, by the violence which he had meted out to so many others, and they were glad.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to meted, such as: parcel, deal, give, ration, share, and dole.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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