How to Use undeserved in a Sentence

undeserved

adjective
  • For 48 years, one month and 18 days, Glynn Simmons was trapped in an undeserved hell.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • But Pichetrungsi is wrong in his contention that his Restaurant of the Year award is undeserved.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The next step is to identify an undeserved niche and then to fill that void to the best of your ability.
    Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Press-on nails get a bad rap that is, quite frankly, wholly undeserved.
    Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Life is hard enough without the threat of public pile-on, undeserved!
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The idea was to cut down on undeserved payments that cost CMS nearly $30 billion over the past three years.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive.com, 20 July 2019
  • Severns, who had two young children, heard the undeserved guilt in her voice.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Thank you, Joe, my old, dear friend, for those mostly undeserved kind words.
    Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • And as an undeserved bonus, Ole Miss doesn’t even have to pay off Freeze’s contract, which had about $12 million left on it.
    David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 July 2017
  • View this post on Instagram 3 years of undeserved hate and abuse.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The once simple pleasure of an idle Sunday is undeserved because it has been paid for by the fallen and is no longer mine alone to spend.
    Timothy Kudo, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The feel-good togetherness of the journo’s family at the end feels undeserved.
    Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Garloff says the shaming is undeserved since his tardiness is not his fault.
    Marlisse Cepeda, Woman's Day, 2 Mar. 2015
  • These days, though, the biggest story about welfare cheats isn’t about the poor making off with a few dollars in undeserved aid.
    Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Thank you again for blessings so undeserved and too numerous to count.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Francona took them hard and endured a lot of undeserved abuse from a frustrated fan base.
    Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The case for Ohio State’s invite being undeserved has been made not just by some media members, but the top coaches in the country.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Norman said all members of the community, not just those who are undeserved, can make use of the program.
    Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Nutting could do the fan base a favor and sell the team for a huge profit, his undeserved reward for ruining a proud franchise.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2021
  • But the authors of a new study have found that the reputation is undeserved, at least in Ethiopia and Angola, where the study was conducted.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The undeserved losses became more and more commonplace as a playoff spot slipped away.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 8 May 2021
  • Bragg’s absurd case against Trump finally gets its undeserved day in court.
    Fox News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But research shows cats’ reputation as a cold and aloof pet is undeserved.
    Emily Blackwell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • But few suffered the trauma, fear, undeserved feelings of shame and smoldering anger of these young women.
    Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The new Model 70 came in for particular hatred, some of which was undeserved.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 17 June 2020
  • The undeserved martyr-like treatment given to Trump by many of his supporters is mostly the by-product of his treatment by the media, which makes no sense to me.
    David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
  • So much of this Stars season has felt undeserved to the organization.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • But if basals continue to get undeserved greens for knowledge-building and usability, the progress that has been made could be lost.
    Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • With these high prices came undeserved windfall profits.
    Joseph E. Stiglitz, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But there was also a prurient little thrill to winning, no matter how undeserved.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 May 2024

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