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View definitions for deserved

deserved

adjective as in merited

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The suspect's lawyer said in a statement his client deserved due process and asked the public "to withhold rushing to judgment until all the evidence is heard".

From BBC

"It makes me sad when I have experiences that are different now because the larger me deserved that same attention and love," Branneisha says.

From BBC

"For me, I have to say that we deserved a punishment of this result," he said.

From BBC

He says he “misses a mother figure ... but I think what she’s going through is deserved.”

I think there's a powerful tendency to blame the victim, especially if you think that they really deserved it.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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