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getting even

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Yet, bloodthirstiness is not the objective of vengeance; getting even and settling the score most certainly is.

This was a major obstacle to getting even the most worthwhile projects past the planning stages.

Yet just as rental prices start to soften, the purchase market seems to be getting even hotter.

Scores are never settled, and getting even becomes both a psychological and mathematical impossibility.

Wall Street created the fiscal mess we're facing, yet they are getting even bigger tax breaks.

But if we cannot tell what mere subsistence requires are we not getting even vaguer when we add an indefinite "more" to it?

But then he hated to go without getting even with the hard-hearted screw who had put his pipe out.

I had trouble with Jack over two months ago, and I suppose this is his way of getting even with me.

Beyond any doubt not much more than a mile away the mullah was getting even by condemning the lot of them to death.

He was getting even fatter, now that he was eating better food from the fair restaurant around the corner.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to get even, such as: even the score, get back at, get square, and settle the score.

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

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