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Example sentences for: deserved

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The portrait may well be accurate--Naipaul is not a writer with a reputation for warmheartedness--but all that can be concluded from the exercise is that, at best, one monster deserved the other.
The dead, Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic says, deserved their fate.
I deserved exactly half of that butt-kicking.
Reviewers say the anemic ratings for the winter games are deserved.
Mixed-race people were initially treated as a "new people" who existed in the space between white and black and deserved a status not quite as high as whites but higher than that of black people in general.