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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Not merited; unjustifiable or unfair.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not deserved not merited.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not deserved or earned

Examples

  • “I am worried about what this is doing to the democratic party and fear that this gives John McCain undeserved leverage in November.”

    Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'

  • “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

  • “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

  • “Besides," said Daubeny, "if he knows me to be quite hopeless" -- and here the poor boy grew scarlet as he recalled the undeserved insult -- "it's no disgrace to me to fail.”

    St. Winifred's, or The World of School

  • “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

  • “The award was undeserved, which is not the same as saying it went to an undeserving person.”

    TPMCafe

  • “Speaking of so-called undeserved numbers being retired, Red Sox ownership announced right before that very game that”

    Empyreal Environs

  • “First, the Churchmen were conspicuous by their absence; and secondly, all the old grey-headed counsellors, who had been the pride and ornament of the reigns of Edmund and Edred, were not seen; for, after the rumour of their marriage had reached Odo, he had pronounced the sentence of the lesser excommunication upon them, severing them from the sacraments; and this was felt by the old counsellors of Edred to be a most serious stigma, yet one which they could not call undeserved: hence they deserted the court.”

    Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune

  • “Now the fed is making the problem even worse by keeping these iliterate spend-thrifts in their 'undeserved' homes – at the expense of the rest of us.”

    U.S. to mortgage firms: Pick up the pace

  • “The angry workers demanded immediate removal of the two from their 'undeserved' positions.”

    Clashes between two groups of PPP

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