desert

loikata, karata

hylätä

autiomaa, aavikko (senseid)puhekieltä That which is deserved or merit merited; a just punishment or reward
1600, (w), (w)

From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.

"Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"

His reputation falls far below his desert.

Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, / A dreary desert and a gloomy waste.

He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.

So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?