Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Honestly gained; hard ly earned.

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Examples

  • Unless you are prepared to argue that the undecideds of NY are just as attentive to right-wing smear peddlers as the undecideds of genunine swing-states, then it is not clear to me that her well-won wins in NY really speak to the point you are trying to make.

    Obama Campaign Denies Collecting "Oppo Research" On Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • _8, _9 So edition 1870 wanting 1832 — “But not the blessings of thy happier lot,/Nor thy well-won prosperity, and fame” 1847.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • He was sent home to rest and to recruit his old regiments, and was given the well-won rank of major general.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He was sent home to rest and to recruit his old regiments, and was given the well-won rank of major general.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He was sent home to rest and to recruit his old regiments, and was given the well-won rank of major general.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • He was sent home to rest and to recruit his old regiments, and was given the well-won rank of major general.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • He was sent home to rest and to recruit his old regiments, and was given the well-won rank of major general.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • So these points not only contain a lawful right, but a well-defended right, a well-won right, a right which the people of

    VISIT OF TRAN BUU KIEM TO CUBA 1969

  • On the contrary, it would only be less honourable than a well-won victory, and would be an inspiration to the men of a future fleet that would carry the banner of the

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • Had he not stooped from his well-won, honorable height, the serene azure of his blue uniform, to sue for her?

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

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