deserved
These veterans took a lot of undeserved criticism for daring to speak the truth.
They say he used company credit cards for personal purchases, paid undeserved bonuses, and gave free rides to friends, family members, and politicians on corporate jets.
They have made me out to be a real villain and have given me a reputation that is completely undeserved.
Here's what you should do if you get a ticket for failing to pay the bridge toll even though you paid a toll, or otherwise believe the ticket was undeserved.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Deserving and deserved
birthright
come
comeuppance
deserts
deserve
deserved
deserving
get your comeuppance
get your just desertsidiom
go
had it coming (to you)idiom
hard-earned
just
serve
undeservedly
undeserving
undeservingly
unmerited
well deserved
worthy

Examples of undeserved

undeserved
Surely this is a case of undeserved treatment-of requitative injustice-if any is?
Instances of undeserved pain and suffering provide us with our most poignant examples.
On my view, egalitarians are not committed to thinking deserved inequalities are as bad as undeserved ones.
For instance, some nonconsequentialists (who focus on factors other than well-being) assign well-being a low moral value that is in some sense undeserved.
In such cases inherited advantages and disadvantages would be undeserved.
This article argues that these criticisms were undeserved.
They just look as if they have been copied too many times and give the book an undeserved out-of-date appearance.
And, he asks us to conclude, how like this second picture, of undeserved and damaging doles, is to our state welfare system today.
What loss do they suffer, in terms of their genuine interests, when the defendant is rightly acquitted or spared undeserved punishment?
Now one might say that the eclipse, like accidents of birth, is a merely undeserved outcome.
Despite its undeserved popular reputation as an aphrodisiac, opium was probably ineffectual in that regard.
While this image is frequently undeserved, it can impact not only on funding opportunities, but our ability to involve practitioners in our investigations.
Excessive media attention, and a reputation for poor safety, however undeserved, follows accidents.
Given that students are particularly vulnerable in such disputes, the institution has an obligation to protect them from undeserved harm.
This analysis does little to prevent us from describing every morally wrongful (rightful) act as undeserved (deserved).
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