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• v  be worthy or deserving
• a  properly deserved

• But perhaps no batsman has worn the tag with so much graceand so deserved itas Tendulkar.
• An 80-year-old rabbi causes outrage by suggesting that the 6 million Holocaust victims deserved their fates.
• He deserved it: his 11.

• deserve
• merit
• merited

• unmerited

News & Articles

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• Future Covers The Source Magazine [PHOTO]
  Can't say that this honor isn't well deserved. The Atlanta native is having a stellar run because of highly lauded tracks like "Karate Chop." In fact, he's lent a hand to a pair of the aforementioned MCs latest efforts with choruses on Birdman's "Tap Out" and Ace's "Bugatti," respectively.
  June 13, 2013 - Hip-Hop Wired
• Erik Spoelstra: ‘We got what we deserved … We got what we deserved … We got what we deserved … We got what we deserved’
  Miami Heat coach Erick Spoelstra’s entire opening statement after Miami’s 113-77 Game 3 loss to the San Antonio Spurs was, “Well, we got what we deserved.” After he repeated the phrase – “We got what we deserved” – for the third time while answering questions from reporters, Spoelstra was asked what exactly he meant by…
  June 12, 2013 - NBC Sports: ProBasketballTalk
• Erik Spoelstra After Heat Loss In Game 3: We Got What We Deserved
  After San Antonio's 113-77 beat down on Tuesday night in Game 3 of the NBA finals, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra started his press conference by saying "we got what we deserved tonight." It wasn't the last time he said that.
  June 12, 2013 - The Huffington Post

Quotes

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• President Bush in Bloomberg
  Sketching a vision of the Middle East in 60 years time, Bush predicted again that Palestinians "will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserved."
• Novak Djokovic in The Associated Press
  Nothing is easy these days, especially at this stage of the tournament,Djokovic said. "But the way I played, I deserved to win. I was hitting all the shots and I was really playing very solid from all parts of the court. I'm very, very...
• Otto Rehhagel in ESPN
  It was a well-deserved victory, no doubt about that,said the 71-year-old German. "We wanted to avoid an early goal, we managed to do that, but of course Argentina had more class and that earned them the win."