undeserved
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undeserved (comparative more undeserved, superlative most undeserved)
- Not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.
- Synonym: ill-deserved
- Antonym: deserved
- 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:
- And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
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not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair
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