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Example sentences for: deserved

How can you use “deserved” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It's his refusal to take moral responsibility for anything, or take credit for things he opposed, or evade blame where blame is genuinely deserved.
Hashimoto deserved to go because he failed to reform the banking system or to stop Japan's financial descent, but it will take time to choose a new prime minister and even more time for the new leader to push through reforms.
If ever bad guys deserved to be executed, it's the bad guys in 8MM . They promise they're going to torture and kill the hero's wife and baby daughter, they cast aspersions on his masculinity, they sneer at the notion that anyone would care about their victims.
Rubin's reticence, as well as his praise of underlings and colleagues, has earned him an enormous, though not fully deserved, reputation for humility.
They might have given the Golden Girl more to say than her handful of wet blanket reproaches, and Worm deserved a bigger last act.