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Example sentences for: deserved

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New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its "annoying cuteness."
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.
The attorney for Spencer's wife says that Spencer 1) committed adultery with a dozen women; 2) summoned his wife to his bath to inform her, "I no longer love you and you're no good as a wife"; 3) expressed remorse by telling one of his mistresses that his wife deserved a husband who could "help her deal with her shortcomings."
Rubin's reticence, as well as his praise of underlings and colleagues, has earned him an enormous, though not fully deserved, reputation for humility.
Assigning a couple of index "points" to compare higher or lower music sales at retail might be deserved and appropriate to measuring the state of the arts.