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形容詞

undeserved (comparative more undeserved, superlative most undeserved)

1. Not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.

   Synonyms: ill-deserved, unearned

   Antonym: deserved

   • 1957 February, “Solitaire Chess”, in Chess Review:

     Second best moves are good enough against most chessplayers. Occasionally, they even earn an undeserved reward. But not against Alekhine.

   • 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.

派生語

• undeservedly