How To Use Deserved In A Sentence

He says the insurance bond provides deserved protection for employees who put a lot into the company.
In the Best Supporting Actor category, Chris Cooper deservedly picked up the gold statuette for his barnstorming performance in Adaptation.
Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large.
It has deservedly won the best picture Golden Globe and will no doubt inspire a new generation to read Virginia Woolf.
The cult following these films now carry is spectacular and deserved.

Paula, ever the softy, decided that Elizabeth deserved a chance.
Deservedly proud of his fine record with Ireland and first years at SunderlandClogger or tiki-taka? Wolverhampton Wanderers Premier League 2011-12 team guide
Given his appalling record, he deserved serious punishment. The Sun
We deserved to win the Senior Cup last season and lost it and now things have evened up.
At last she managed to have a well-deserved rest.
He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
Albertus Magnus [Alberto Magno] "To Albertus Magnus, because he investigated the natural phenomena in emulation of Aristotle, in immense volumes, as a most holy concern for posterity Federico set this up for one who deserved it well. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
He has a well-deserved reputation as a reliable worker.
Some were probably hoping the students would get their comeuppance, but death was more than they deserved.
Louise's logic suggests that, had Nolan managed to steer Ranger's nod down the right side of the post minutes before Coloccini's unwitting own goal let's be honest, that *would* have been undeserved, which is just absurd. The Guardian World News
But her unclassifiable subject matter meant that she received less public recognition than she unquestionably deserved. Times, Sunday Times
AN abysmal Arsenal defensive performance but Stoke deserved their win. The Sun
Making camp in the Mulga we drew water from the Bore for showers & washing, settling in for a well deserved day off.
A deserved multi-award-winner that's almost savoury but never boorish. Times, Sunday Times
He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
I reckon that gobby bitch who got slapped got all that she deserved (and look at her lapping up the publicity, even that leech Clifford is on it now). Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
They certainly deserved it, the Northern Counties East League minnows having produced a display well above their station.
Please give my sincere compliments and a well deserved Bravo!
This was a richly deserved commendation and Helen can be proud of her performance.
He was a good strong leader, she said, who deserved his party's unreserved support.
He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
But Monaco richly deserved the victory for a hugely impressive performance. Times, Sunday Times
Then snatching up some of the flowers, which ornamented the table, he swore that Juba should henceforward be called Anacreon, and that he deserved to be crowned with roses by the hand of beauty. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
But on thinking it over, he decided it seemed less than hopeful to represent a constituency that deserved to be slimmed out of existence. POLITICAL SUICIDE
Just when a draw seemed inevitable a break upfield saw the ball fall to Collingwood and he kept his cool under pressure to send over the winning points to give his side a win they just about deserved over gallant opponents.
It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance. Times, Sunday Times
Hearty congratulations on your passing the examination with excellent result.It is a well deserved reward for the hard effort you have made during the past year.
Potter confessed City's second-half showing could not match that of the first but believed Radcliffe deserved credit for stemming the flow of goals conceded before grabbing a late consolation ten minutes from time.
The angry workers demanded immediate removal of the two from their 'undeserved' positions. Clashes between two groups of PPP
Political parties are much disdained these days, often deservedly.
He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.
But Monaco richly deserved the victory for a hugely impressive performance. Times, Sunday Times
His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.
So I figured he deserved some payback, just enough to make a fool of himself.
While Kapoor's structure may yet succeed in attracting global attention to an impoverished corner of England, the chants of "We want Gordon Strachan out" which proved the soundtrack to the latter parts of the deserved 2-1 defeat by Leeds United on Saturday evening indicated the Scot is no longer being offered the benefit of the doubt. Gordon Strachan running out of time to revive Middlesbrough's fortunes
I deserved such a distinction personally, for my own sake, and I was always wishing that my august friend would create a title specially in my favour. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
You guys may have deserved to win had my partner not shot chunks of mushed-up hotdogs your way. Unclebob Diary Entry
McCain deserved to lose because he held his tongue on Obama's associations with Rev. Wright, ACORN, Bill Ayres, Palin: 'I will forever question' Rev. Wright strategy
He also credits Aristotle with saying: Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life (p. 463). Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Pool grabbed a deserved opener on 38 minutes. The Sun
TV would not touch him for punditry duties, fearful of what he might say, and hence there was no glorious retirement into the public life of a celebrity, of the sort which his playing career so richly deserved.
I might even suggest that the comment to which you replied is an example of some dextrous and well-deserved ridicule. Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming
Perhaps OUR UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION will inspire Easterners to fight harder when Westerners seek to use their Senatorial advantages to gain undeserved highway and anti-terrorist funds. Balkinization
He was poor himself but passionate in his conviction that Modigliani deserved a sponsor.
The book has deservedly been a huge bestseller in the US. Times, Sunday Times
C.S.S.R. -- a name deservedly held in great esteem in the Catholic community. Public School Education
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
It's impossible to believe how much has come out of the house, especially when rubbish removal is undeservedly expensive. Times, Sunday Times
Akira has a well deserved reputation for being one of the most detailed works on animation ever and Otomo has easily surpassed his earlier work here.
The techniques involved, including repoussé relief, inlays, enamelling, filigree, engraving, and hatching, are those of exceptionally skilled designer-craftsmen, who held a deservedly important position in society.
Steve Finnan may never quite have received the accolades his solid, dependable performances deserved, but among knowing Liverpool fans there is no shortage of appreciation.
Their latest effort looks set to continue the journey towards making them one of the biggest bands in the world - and deservedly so.
Which is why I can see both West Ham and Bolton winning and the Hammers going down, deserved punishment for a season in which they stirred themselves only when it was too late.
This in an industry with a deserved reputation for rampant, entrenched misogyny. Times, Sunday Times
As for Australian ports' image of being environmental villains, Hirst says the tag is undeserved for the most part.
Never have the ordinary people of America, the decent, working stiffs, needed and deserved a great tribute more urgently.
Yet research has suggested that testosterone's bad reputation is largely undeserved. Times, Sunday Times
The woman on the left (who looks a bit like Téa Leoni, I think) is obviously being confronted with some entitled upstart (look at that nose in the air!) and is on the point of delivering a well-deserved set-down. August 2007
For most of its nations, the tomato was such an exotic fruit that it deserved a noble title.
The acclaim was richly deserved, but things were less glamorous from her point of view.
Michael thoroughly deserved the championship, just as he's deserved it every year since he last won it in 1995.
Members of Congress are appalled by the prospect of taxpayer funds going to companies lavishing such undeserved largess on such a group of demonstrated failures.
This was a richly deserved three points and a victory which put them nine points clear of the drop zone. Times, Sunday Times
It was a tough match, which provided excitement up to the very end with the result being a deserved draw for both sides.
It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance. Times, Sunday Times
Any recompense you can offer them will be most richly deserved. Times, Sunday Times
Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
‘Welcome aboard the Oberon, Captain,’ Reagan said, addressing Lawrence by the honorific he deserved as commanding officer of a ship.
The mosquitoes of Loreto have a deserved reputation for driving away such visitors as do not care to leave much of their blood with the redoubtable diptera. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
When uncle Billy, in one of his characteristic empty-headed gestures, accidentally lost his score, the one that would redeem him from undeserved obscurity, something broke in him and he ran screaming out into the streets, meandering aimlessly, meaningless sounds burbling from his lips until he wound up here, on the bridge, teetering over the edge on the verge of a long, life-crushing fall into the dark waters below. The envelopes
Did Mr Djindjic truly believe that Mr Karadzic deserved his support, or was the gesture utterly cynical?
Jiau's lawyer, Joanna Hendon, said her client deserved a term similar to the 18 months Rakoff imposed on a co-defendant in the expert-networking investigation. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
They got a lot more spankings than they probably deserved, but I didn't have a time.
I decided to come off the bench in the second half but left it so late because I couldn't single out one player who deserved to be substituted.
For instance, hundreds of thousands of non-British Canadians, who suffered in undeserved idleness during ten depression years, are today enjoying full employment, their labour earnestly courted by the nation at war. Canada and Immigration
Conductors were popular, and deservedly so, because they assisted elderly people, sorted out fares and quelled bad behaviour.
But there still clung to her what I fear we must call a perverseness of obstinacy, a desire to maintain the resolution she had made -- a wish that she might be allowed to undergo the punishment she had deserved. Can You Forgive Her?
I'm a forty-one-year old metropolitan male, blissfully and undeservedly attached to a very charming woman, but I can well remember what it is like to be a thirty something single male.
Apparently the pejorative term ‘breeding like rabbits’ is well deserved.
The company has a deserved reputation for reliability. Times, Sunday Times
THIS well-deserved win has given the Hammers great hopes of staying up. The Sun
Patients and their families deserved far higher levels of internal governance. Times, Sunday Times
Both had an undeserved reputation for pretension and a sharp sense of humour that went over the heads of many of their detractors.
Only in the recent years he has finally started to get the status that his fistic achievements have deserved him.
It was a lot of effort but that person deserved it. The Sun
Earning the respect of his players after a rocky start three seasons ago, Hartley was given a well-deserved raise and two-year extension.
Inherent in Augustine's lifelong concern to vindicate providence was his belief that no pain or loss is undeserved.
We congratulate James on his well-deserved promotion to Chief Executive.
Ireland's artisans delighted us with their heart, their stamina and their unflagging will to win - they fully deserved in the end to beat Spain's artistas, but were denied.
He had clung to it when times seemed desperate and hopeless, but he had refused to think he and his sisters deserved what they got.
It was a brave decision, but the correct one as neither side deserved to lose this particular game.
Superb display of swing bowling got him a deserved five-wicket haul in the first innings. The Sun
She deserved her promotion, but I wish she wasn't so damned smug about it.
So the half-time team talk will not have been quite as relaxed as the football deserved. The Sun
These most beautiful people have not deserved the terrible destruction being wreaked on them. Times, Sunday Times
A horse relay, Gwinn believed, would halve the time required to deliver mail and convince Congress that the central route deserved the federal contract.
Adams, the 33-year-old Jamaican batsman, deserved better than this undignified end to his reign.
Despite her abrupt style winning her as many friends as it did enemies, there was no denying that she deserved to be there.
Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently. valley of slaughter -- It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (Jer 19: 4), but of those who richly deserved their fate. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Just as last year's title shined a well deserved light on the quality of San Francisco's starting rotation, this year's failure to return to the postseason should do the same to the team's anemic offense. SI.com
Lordhillwood 5 February 2011 5:34PM how is your report misses the evident fact that Barton committed an attrocious foul on arshavin just before half time, did the same again on Diaby fouled throughout the game, diaby deserved his red for taking retribution, why wasnt nolan sent off for throwing the keeper in the net ? The Guardian World News
If anything there was sympathy for libraries and their staff, allied to a vague if unstated belief that they deserved better.
Crowther deserved a half-century, but it was not to be and Warton pressed the panic button too much as there were three run-outs in the innings.
Far from it, they are good men, true gentlemen, and deservedly interesting characters in their own right.
Stoke's second-half fightback meant they deserved the point. Times, Sunday Times
Vietnam vets, once culturally ostracized, had become deservedly more sympathetic in the eyes of the media, and everything countercultural was now unhip - or worse.
I was surprised to read that one of those soft-hearted Cornish fisherman had put a lobster back in the sea after catching it in one of his pots, because he thought it looked tired and deserved a break.
It was a peach of a goal and no more than Down deserved.
That was always an undeserved reputation, based on her efficient technique. Times, Sunday Times
Doves The Man Who Told Everything There was a time when people thought Elbow deserved to be as popular as their fellow gruff, rain-soaked Mancunian songsmiths, Doves. F&M playlist
Showed he deserved recall with industrious display. The Sun
Having moved into the media, he gained an undeserved reputation for being laid back, when all he was actually displaying was a sense of perspective.
Once before, for some quite unavoidable delay, the Post-Office authorities had "quarrelled" him (as he expressed it), and this undeserved blame rankled in the old soldier's heart. Stories of the Border Marches
She deserved antenatal care, a decent transport system all those things we take for granted in this part of the world.
It'll force the batsmen to use their bats more, while the spinners will be rewarded, deservedly, for foxing the batsmen.
One such species is Toxoplasma gondii, a creature that lives in undeserved obscurity. Parasite Rex
In the end, everyone realises that they don't in fact have enough spare change to be able to pay the exact amount anyway, so the waitress ends up with a much larger tip than her poor service deserved.
But Ireland attacked and got the goal their efforts deserved in 33 minutes with a lovely move.
Yet not all experts are convinced, and some are expressing concern that the plank's reputation is somewhat undeserved. Times, Sunday Times
The very least he deserved was some respect and courtesy, even if it killed me to be polite.
Deservedly, the DS has garnered a legion of admirers from every generation of drivers born since.
Is it paternalistic approval bestowed whether it is really deserved or not, or acknowledgement of output targets that are routinely reached.
Outside of the well-deserved worship of vanilla ice cream, fudge, caramel and peanut butter were noteworthy as popular flavors in new product introductions in the past year.
I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no piece justificative more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the Quarterly Review for July, Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
The four men lied their way onto the premises, and afterwards committed heinous crimes, which deserved severe punishment, said Coetzee.
Pards knew he had just bagged one of the luckiest, undeserved wins of the season. The Sun
For the meaner the condition of each judge is, the greater will be the severity of judgment with which he will seek to efface the idea of his meanness; and he will strive rather to appear worthy of being classed in the honourable decuries, than to have deservedly ranked in a disreputable one. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
It was a game in which neither team deserved to win.
He deservedly won the Player of the Year award.
City looked well set to make it ten games undefeated after Mark Bower's goal on 34 minutes handed City a deserved lead.
This is a display of nauseating deference; a offensive patronization of the man matched only by his undeserved canonisation.
She writes like an angel, and her name deservedly appears on the title page of this book. American Grace
He adds that they are "jubilant" about Pennsylvania the ejection of Rick Santorum from elected politics really is a richly deserved event, though nowhere near sufficient for today Archive 2006-11-01
In a stuffy room deep in the bowels of the Stade de France, the 100m and 200m champion was seated in front of 250 journalists, trying to convince them that she deserved to hang on to her gold medals.
The form has been let down since and he has shot up nearly a stone but he clearly deserved the rise. The Sun
It was just a shame the officials did not allow it to end with the climax it deserved. The Sun
But Town deservedly equalised on 36 minutes. The Sun
Later, I decided that I deserved his contempt, and I hated myself for what I had written.
_Perf. _ amandus fuerim, _I may have deserved to be loved_. New Latin Grammar
I thought the karma he got by repeatedly getting chumped off by Obama, was deliciously deserved for the disdain he held for Bush; who always seemed to hold our allies with great respect. On being called a bigot and/or racist
His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
Solemnity and lightheartedness, an important dimension of Chinese literature, has been subjected to an undeserved negligence.
Given that most of my selections on the gee-gees rather deservedly end up in a yellow tin marked ‘Pal’, it is only fitting that this column takes a passing interest in the noble sport of Greyhound racing.
His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness.
Get away from the hustle and bustle of modern life and step into a well-deserved world of relaxation. The Sun
Always looked bright and his goal was richly deserved. The Sun
Literary prizes should exist to bring those undeservedly overlooked to wider attention. Times, Sunday Times
Suitors are so distasted with delays and abuses, that plain dealing, in denying to deal in suits at first, and reporting the success barely, and in challenging no more thanks than one hath deserved, is grown not only honorable, but also gracious. The Essays
There was still the bitter disappointment of his failure to win the recognition he deserved.
He soon attracted the patronage of the tastemakers in Boston society, and by 1805 he had a well-deserved reputation.
Much of the responsibility for the disaster was shifted onto John, and this was quite undeserved.
He scored the goal that his play deserved with five minutes left as he finished off a fine dribble through the stretched Strand rearguard.
A delightful surprise is Waiting in the Wings, Coward's fiftieth play, an undeserved flop in 1960 and a greatly deserving revival now.
He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
But, nevertheless, considering what they had done, they neither deserved, nor did they seem to care for commiseration, holding up their brazen faces as if they had been taking a pleasure walk for the benefit of their health, and the poukit hens, that dangled before them, ornaments of their bravery. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
And he deserved another one for grappling. The Sun
One of them said the two dead joy riders got what they deserved.
Gautier could cast himself as a seeker of truth unencumbered by alliances with established scientists, a doubter who discovered faults in prevailing theories but was prevented from receiving the acclaim he deserved. reference The presentation in Chroa-génésie is so convoluted that it is unintelligible without a good knowledge of the physics and mathematics that render its deficiencies obvious. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The most incisive move of the game then produced the deserved winner. Times, Sunday Times
Hearty congratulations on your passing the examination with excellent result.It is a well deserved reward for the hard effort you have made during the past year.
The hundreds of thousands of young people who attended his funeral already thought he deserved to be regarded as one. The Sun
They all deserved to take a bow.
There are miracles that happen every day, asked for and unasked for, deserved and undeserved.
You are generous with family and associates offering praise wherever deserved.
If ever a chimp deserved a medal it was Ham.
So I deserved what happened next a walk, a few muffs, a couple of hits, and before I knew it the score was tied.
The horrors of the opening five minutes had gone and they deservedly clawed a goal back on the stroke of half-time. Times, Sunday Times
the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received
She deserved her promotion, but I wish she wasn't so damned smug about it.
They all deserved so much better. Times, Sunday Times
The land is let on lease for terms as long sometimes as sixty-four years, and is sometimes underlet at greatly increased prices to the ultimate tenants, whose precarious condition brings the "head" landlord into undeserved odium. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
Their whole point is that non-whites ARE deficient and therefore deserved to be subjugated which is what makes them racist. Couple divided on what happens next
That earned him a deserved dressing down from the trial judge. Times, Sunday Times
It was a question which deserved serious consideration.
Although equalising seemed to pour life back into the team, Queens held on for a deserved point.
To establish that divine creation deserved such support, its promoters had to convince the court that a non-Christian would find the case as convincing as the secular alternatives.
He was soldierly, flip, and intense about the defense of his honor, even when the smirch was well deserved or the fault his own. CHASING the WHITE DOG
The hundreds of thousands of young people who attended his funeral already thought he deserved to be regarded as one. The Sun
Mufasa gets the kingdom, gets the beautiful wife, has a pretty cool son — but how deserved is all that good fortune? As Tim Burton Eyes ‘Maleficent,’ We Ponder Other Disney Villains Who Could Use A ‘Wicked’ Treatment » MTV Movies Blog
In the meantime, the miraculous score is nobly treated by Levine and a superior cast of singers, and for that alone, the Met's efforts on behalf of Berlioz deserved all the opening-night bravos.
He said this was tantamount to pleading guilty and he deserved a cut. The Sun
We deserved so much more out of it. The Sun
Given that my flickr has had more hits of this gig than the dirtbombs or yeasayer did, and as much as any of the nxne shows (more than most) i think it deserved better than this Lola Ramona on 12 / 04 / 2008, 10: 24 AM I'm not sure what show Tim was at, but he clearly was not at the same one we were. NOW Magazine
Given a 20-year sentence for his role as Hitler's all-powerful armaments minister, the former architect turned plenipotentiary probably deserved a death sentence.
He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.
War and terrorism are the new glamour girls of news that dominate the headlines, deservedly so, it might be said.
Dalton Ross -- EW editor, writer, jokesmith, caterer, and wheelwright -- is taking a well-deserved breather after multitasking himself into near-exhaustion. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
He fully deserved the opprobrium heaped on him. Times, Sunday Times
The four-minute mile was the kind of achievement that would silence critics, and prove to the athlete that he deserved to be called the best.
He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
Dave N.: On the other hand, the time the police brought me 6 bales of marijuana — that had literally been put through a hay baling machine — I felt the person transporting it deserved not only a felony but also a prison sentence. The Volokh Conspiracy » As Predicted, New Justice Department Policy Didn’t Stop Federal Medical Marijuana Arrests in States Where Medical Marijuana is Legal Under State Law
Recalling the painful event, Shoba decides she deserved every bit of the criticism heaped upon her.
Colchester deserved to win after twice hitting the woodwork in a one-sided first half. The Sun
But the meritocratic system that produced Laura and me not only produced outsized expectations; it inculcated a belief that we deserved wonderful jobs and a comfortable lifestyle.
We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.

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