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UNDESERVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undeserved mean?
• UNDESERVED (adjective)
The adjective UNDESERVED has 1 sense:
1. not deserved or earned
Familiarity information: UNDESERVED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not deserved or earned
Context example:
has an undeserved reputation as a coward
Similar:
unmerited (not merited or deserved)
Context examples
How unfortunate that you should have used such very strong expressions in speaking of Wickham to Mr. Darcy, for now they do appear wholly undeserved.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“How can you bear to trample on his undeserved affliction!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Community Health Centers (CHCs) are private, non-profit organizations that directly or indirectly (through contracts and cooperative agreements) provide primary health services and related services to residents of a defined geographic area that is medically undeserved.
(Community Health Center, NCI Thesaurus)
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