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condign

adjective as in due

adjective as in scheduled

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Such rejection, Will wrote, would be “condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration.”

Asked about the matter at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Boris Johnson said having the party whip withdrawn had been "condign", or appropriate punishment in this instance.

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Boris Johnson said he would “study the implications” of the call, and the Delyn MP had lost the party whip and “already had condign punishment”.

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This is condign punishment for the college’s mendacity about helping to incite a mob mentality and collective bullying in response to “racist” behavior that never happened.

If the court nevertheless assigns a portion of this power to itself, its condign punishment, inflicted after each decennial census, will be avalanches of litigation arising from partisan unhappiness about states’ redistricting plans.

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

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