as in justified
being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong
a well deserved promotion for a hard worker
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Company Veteran rhyme slinger Skyzoo took some much deserved time away from the music scene off the heels of his Mind of a Saint album, a conceptual masterpiece that garnered heaping amounts of praise for imagining the ministate of Snowfall protagonist Franklin Saint.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
This book is true crime and a murder mystery at its finest because of the extensive investigations and lucid writing about the facts of this magnificent horse’s tragic death — a horse who deserved so much better.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Fashion has taken a lot of heat — and much of it well deserved — for being focused too much on surface and not enough on substance.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Company Veteran rhyme slinger Skyzoo took some much deserved time away from the music scene off the heels of his Mind of a Saint album, a conceptual masterpiece that garnered heaping amounts of praise for imagining the ministate of Snowfall protagonist Franklin Saint.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Fashion has taken a lot of heat — and much of it well deserved — for being focused too much on surface and not enough on substance.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
This book is true crime and a murder mystery at its finest because of the extensive investigations and lucid writing about the facts of this magnificent horse’s tragic death — a horse who deserved so much better.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Deserved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deserved. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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