well-deserved
fully merited: a well-deserved reputation
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How to use well-deserved in a sentence
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism | Samantha Allen | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“Novelist and not writer and even less a man of letters,” Georges Simenon said of a title he well deserved.
Nobel Prize Winner Modiano’s Magical Musical Prose About Paris | Pierre Assouline | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Peace Prize for Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai was well deserved.
Cuomo has a well-deserved reputation as a master political operator.
Andrew Cuomo Can't Ignore It Now: He's Weak Even at Home | David Freedlander | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe former child star has been taking a well-deserved Ibiza break from her funemployment.
The Tiny Prince of Ibiza Parties On, While Kim and Paris Make Peace | Amy Zimmerman | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Both ladies evidently enjoyed the unhoped-for but well-deserved rest.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsThey were very different boys, but all of them had qualities which well deserved his esteem.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarPerhaps we may think the ferule well deserved when we read of the schoolboy's trick immortalized by Persius.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonThis popularity is well deserved, and it is based upon several substantial considerations.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenA, who was in well-deserved trouble all the way, holed out in ten.
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