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"Deserved" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I am sure your promotion was timely and well deserved.
The boy deserved praise for saving the child's life.
His crime deserved the death penalty.
Netherlands so deserved the World Cup.
After being proven innocent, the killer cucumber went into a well deserved retirement in Spain.
I don't think that I deserved the punishment I got.
If Mary slapped Tom, I'm sure he deserved it.
Tom gave Mary more credit than she deserved.
Tom felt that he deserved an explanation.
Tom deserved the punishment he got.
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But though he thus abstained from power, his eldest son, the present Lord Morpeth, as Secretary for Ireland at a critical period, acquired a higher reputation and a more deserved popularity than any statesman who ever held that office.
When the victim fails or refuses, the punishment is perceived as being more deserved.
For example, Van Dijk et al. (2005) showed that individuals who were seen to be responsible for their own misfortune evoked more schadenfreude and less sympathy than individuals who were not held responsible for their misfortunes, and that these effects were mediated by the perceived deservingness of the misfortune (i.e., misfortunes for which a target was held responsible were seen as more deserved and in turn elicited more schadenfreude and less sympathy).
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