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Definitions for undeserved
un·de·served

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. undeservedadjective

    not deserved or earned

    "has an undeserved reputation as a coward"

Wiktionary

  1. undeservedadjective

    not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Undeservedadjective

    This victory, obtained with great, and truely not undeserved, honour to the two princes, the whole estates, with one consent, gave the crown to Musidorus. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

    The same virtue which gave him a disregard of fame, made him impatient of an undeserved reproach. Addison.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of undeserved in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of undeserved in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of undeserved in a Sentence

  1. Colette:

    Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  2. Proverb:

    Undeserved praise is mockery disguised.

  3. William Hazlitt:

    Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

  4. Conor Lamb:

    Paul Ryan will use the term' entitlement reform' to talk about Social Security and Medicare as if it's undeserved or it's some form of welfare, but it's not any of those things. People paid for it. They worked hard for it and they expect us to keep our promises to them.

  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

    The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

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