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ill-deserved

ill-deserved adjective: undeserved, unwarranted.

Adjective

ill-deserved (comparative more ill-deserved, superlative most ill-deserved)

  1. undeserved, unwarranted
    • King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but...1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480

Forms of ill-deserved

comparativemore ill-deserved
superlativemost ill-deserved

Questions about ill-deserved

What does ill-deserved mean?
Ill-deserved means undeserved, unwarranted.
What part of speech is ill-deserved?
Ill-deserved is an adjective.

Words near ill-deserved in the dictionary

  1. ill-conditioned
  2. ill-considered
  3. ill-constructed
  4. ill-defined
  5. ill-definedness
  6. ill-deserved
  7. ill-directed
  8. ill-disguised
  9. ill-disposed
  10. ill-doer
  11. ill-doers

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