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Example sentences for: deserved

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The conventional wisdom is correct: The Sopranos deserved to win pretty much every award, and the fact that it got only two is a travesty, to the degree that Emmy injustice can be a travesty.
He never once in my lifetime's recall said that any man or woman deserved special respect for riches--in fact, like Adam Smith, he believed that the pleadings of the rich merited special suspicion.
The truth is that Brill's reputation as an attack dog--cherished above all by Brill himself--is not completely deserved.
It's a deserved fate.
The completely cynical spin: He hated people and portrayed them as savages because they deserved it.