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• Floris grumpily yammered on about how the actors hardly deserved to be plaudited.From the entry plaudit
• The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.From the entry revolt
• Your lecture deserved a much better reception than it got. Pearls before swine!From the entry pearls before swine
• After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.From the entry deserve
• After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.From the entry deserve
• If someone gets a promotion that might not be deserved, it could open up a whole can of worms with the other employees.From the entry can of worms
• Listen, the point was not whether the mockery of the first AirPods was deserved or not.2024 April 30, @bryancsk, Twitter. From the entry doublethinked
• The young Baltimore woman behind the counter deserved an explanation something like that.2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry egg cream
• Tiger and Phil got what they deserved on this one: Creampies in the face for everybody.2018 November 26, Thomas Boswell, “Ask Boswell: Redskins, Nationals and Washington sports”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry creampie
• In the eyes of many Chinese, the boy was a heartless criminal who deserved to be punished.2018 December 14, Amy Qin, “12-Year-Old in China Kills His Mother, Then Returns to School, Igniting an Outcry”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Yuanjiang
• Granted that your angkong hit me with his cane, which I guess I deserved.2017, Ariesa Jane Domingo, Better Than Fiction, Summit Publishing Company Inc., page 91. From the entry angkong
• The contractor joked that his secretary would give it the high level of attention it deserved.2016 April 7, Thami J. Khalil, Faith, Growth and Success, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry analphabet
• She was the type of woman who deserved to live in a villa or a fancy hotel.2016 February, Christine Reilly, “The Claudio who Promised”, in Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone…. From the entry quaintrelle
• He was a fat, balding, bad-tempered man, with a deserved reputation for stinginess.2014 August 14, J. D. Frodsham, Fool's Mate, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry wouldn't shout if a shark bit him
• He is an inerasably talented man and a deserved living cinema icon.2014, Ron Perlman, Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir, page 9. From the entry inerasably
• Walcott's display deserved a goal and it duly arrived after 55 minutes.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport. From the entry duly
• How often do they say things like, "If anybody deserved to go to heaven, it was Bob"?2011, James C. Howell, The Beauty of the Word: The Challenge and Wonder of Preaching, page 150. From the entry counterpreach
• She was not going to the Salvos, she deserved better than that.2007, Dominie Whyntie, Love and War and All that Stuff, page 173. From the entry salvos
• The Sargents' status as hummingbird gurus is unrivaled and well deserved.2007, Wonderful West Virginia, volume 71, page 5. From the entry hummer
• Jerry Falwell's right-wing fundamentalist publication "Moral Majority Inc." editorialized that AIDS was God's "deserved punishments" against homosexuals.2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World. From the entry editorialize
• Will tried to convince himself that he had the life he deserved.2007, Janice Kay Johnson, Christmas Presents and Past, page 230. From the entry midnightmare
• He deserved better than being frozen like a Popsicle under that glacier.2005, Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos, Lost City, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 514. From the entry best of the bunch
• Tonight he makes the most unCanadian of admissions: he feels his success is deserved.2003, Donna Bailey Nurse, What's a Black Critic To Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry unCanadian
• According to the criteria of good-lookingness, Uncle Pete deserved an A.2001, James Hutchison, James' Journey: From the Scottish Highlands Via New York and Texas to Mars and Beyond, page 150. From the entry good-lookingness
• Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame.1999, Barb Knox, “Y2K Optimism: Unjustified in survey”, in comp.software.year-2000 (Usenet). From the entry code face
• Thank goodness the cat took about half the coffee—which she certainly deserved.1991, Robert Hitt Neill, Don't Fish Under the Dingleberry Tree (And Other Philosophies of Life), Leland, M.S.: Mississippi River…. From the entry lapwise
• Last year, the Bears were outplayed and outcoached and deserved to lose.1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry outcoach
• I was speaking on my own behalf because I felt that the Darts management deserved my support.1979 August 25, Steven Tierney, “Darts”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 5. From the entry check out
• But many Americans continued to believe that two vital questions about Formosa still deserved debate.[1950 February 6, “Formosa Girds for a Lonely Last Stand”, in Life, volume 28, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, columns 2, 3. From the entry anti-communist
• Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12. From the entry reputation
• "For if anyone has ever deserved our fires, it is Thou.1912, Constance Garnett (translating Dostoevsky), The Brothers Karamazov, Part II, Book V, Chapter 5. From the entry dixi
• I worry that I will wake up tomorrow in a cold sweat, having forgotten to thank someone who assuredly deserved it.2021, Lisa Grossman Liu, The Transparent, Concurrent, and Collaborative Health Record (thesis), New York: Columbia University, →DOI, page…. From the entry kleptomnesia
• His mother had punished him when he'd deserved it.2017, Joyce Carol Oates, Double Delight, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry punish
• But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France. From the entry clash
• The fame of the smörgåsbord (smorgasbord) is justly deserved.2011, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Roger Norum, Alexia Travaglini, Frommer’s Scandinavia (Frommer’s), 24th edition, Hoboken, N.J.…. From the entry smorgasbord
• Wolves rose out of the drop zone with a deserved win to add more pressure on to defending champions Chelsea.2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC. From the entry drop zone
• If her interest was feigned, she deserved an Academy Award.2007, Emma Holly, In the Flesh, Black Lace, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry Academy Award
• People who were nice to her deserved to be rewarded.2005, Adam Langer, Crossing California. From the entry chafesome
• Were ironic quotation marks ever so deserved?2003, Peter Lee, Halcyon days: How to lose a war in a week. From the entry ever so

Meaning of deserved

1. adjective Fair; merited.

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Questions about deserved in a sentence

How do you use deserved in a sentence?

Deserved is used as an adjective. For example: “Floris grumpily yammered on about how the actors hardly deserved to be plaudited.”

What is a short sentence with deserved?

“Were ironic quotation marks ever so deserved?”

What does deserved mean?

Deserved means fair; merited.