undeserved

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Recent Examples of undeserved Their unwavering backing of him is undeserved. Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025 Eyewitness accounts were as if a portal into an undeserved hell. Ed Simon august 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025 What a torrent of encouragement and loving advice and undeserved flattery over the years! John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025 But the truth is that wasps have a somewhat undeserved bad reputation. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for undeserved
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeserved
Adjective
  • Specifically, the four customers argued that Hershey's violated Florida Deceptive And Unfair Trade Practices Act, which is designed to protect Floridians from unfair competition, deceptive acts and unethical practices.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The complaint accuses Dignity Health and the two hospitals of violating multiple laws including California’s Emergency Services Law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, and unfair competition law.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The investigatory demand seeks to chill their services and advocacy, places an undue burden on Exodus to fulfill the request, exposes private information of its clients, and deters potential clients, according to the complaint.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Pension funds have to work on ways and means to invest through venture capital funds without undue risk.
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Patrick Hendry, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents NYPD officers, believes the charges against Alongi and Cianfrocco are unjustified and unfair.
    Mason Leath, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This reaction isn’t entirely unjustified when examining most of the 80-proof bottles on the market.
    Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But some companies are drawing from an unjust supply chain to meet this demand.
    Xanthe Scharff, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lest you be concerned, there's no unmerited nepotism here.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The very picture of God’s unmerited favor and love.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Umpires take a lot of unwarranted criticism across Major League Baseball, but this is one instance where Scott Barry deserves to take some heat for this decision.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Though his paranoia is not unwarranted.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Undeserved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeserved. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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