deservedly

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"The US will never recover the moral high ground that - deservedly or not - it once enjoyed."

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  1. Justly; according to desert, whether of good or evil. God's Judgment had deservedly fallen down upon him for his Blasphemies. Howell, Letters, I. v. 11. A man deservedly cuts himself off from the affections of that community which he endeavours to subvert. Addison.

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  • Palin's spiteful dig against Obama's days as a community organizer have -- deservedly —  Secret Society
  • The Post goes on to say that Justice Kennedy's arguments for disregarding the military death penalty as having no effect on the June ruling "are unconvincing and leave-deservedly or not-the impression that a majority of the court refused to allow new facts to alter their positions." —  Bench Memos
  • Dead Head Fred won for the 2007 span of releases - deservedly so, in my humble opinion.
  • OK, I'll say one thing that's absolutely wrong: Chuck Thompson deservedly is on the list, but at No. 34 he's one place above —  Blog updates
  • Adam Lambert (deservedly) topped the American Idol Power List surprised by the bottom three? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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