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View synonyms for deserved

deserved

[ dih-zurvd ]

adjective

  1. justly or rightly earned; merited:

    a deserved increase in salary.



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Other Words From

  • de·serv·ed·ness [dih-, zur, -vid-nis], noun
  • half-de·served adjective
  • half-de·served·ness noun
  • unde·served adjective
  • well-de·served adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of deserved1

First recorded in 1545–55; deserve + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.

But this was the year when criticism of said women finally got the harsh words it deserved.

He wrote that he deserved to die and alluded to a ominous plan that he had backed out of twice already.

I had to create plays out of necessity, because African women deserved a voice and a place on the stage.

I think the dog deserved to have a little bit of a storyline, so that had as much to do with it as anything.

At length the great Pit Town collection was housed as it deserved to be.

It was he who deserved punishment—not the sufferer with his calamities imposed upon him by his erring sire.

But Soult was possessed of a crafty caution which seldom if ever allowed his ambition to hinder the success his ability deserved.

But Magellan learned of their wicked plot in time to defeat them, and he punished them as they deserved.

Poor brutes, they deserved a better fate than the cruel method of extinction which Turkish rule administered.

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