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meted out

ADJECTIVE
  1. given out in portions

How To Use meted out In A Sentence

  • Like the treatment meted out to anyone who disagreed with or disbelieved the lies that took our military into Iraq? Levin swears repeatedly at Goldman hearing
  • But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
  • The sentence is consistent with punishments previously meted out to those charged with establishing parties. Times, Sunday Times
  • No punishments have been meted out to anyone as yet but an investigation is going on.
  • Severe punishments are meted out to violators.
  • The battle of the sexes, (c. 1918 – c. 2007), the colorful dialects, the familiar supernatural characters in newish situations, the punishments meted out by omnipotent powers, these all are equally interesting. bc Says: A GOTHIC ADVENTURE • by Paul A. Freeman
  • In the constitutions he drew up each nation or people was left the use of its own laws; gradually the duchies were divided into countships, the counts being vassals iof the king, and having in turn valvassori (vassi-vassorum) who looked up to them as liege-lords, while ranking over all were the missi dominici who in the king's name saw to it that justice was meted out to everyone. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • The rhetoric of prejudicial disdain is meted out, on the one hand against the “hoity-toity”, and on the other against the “hoi poloi” -- against the “snob” with complex tastes and the “pleb” with simple tastes. Archive 2009-06-01
  • But American administrations, first at a state then a national level, became disgusted by the justice they saw meted out to their citizens by the Strand. As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it?
  • It is not hard to see why local boy Steinbeck loved this place despite his depiction of the harshness meted out to some.
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