单词 | ill-deserved |
释义 | ill-deservedadj. Not deserved; unwarranted. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > unwarranted or unjustifiable undue1398 sacklessa1400 indefensible1529 unwarranted1577 indefensive1586 unjustifiable1589 unwarrantable1612 unconcessible1643 unjustified1644 injustifiable1646 insupportable1649 ill-deserveda1666 unsupportable1710 warrantless1863 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > undeserving > undeserved unearnedc1200 unofearneda1225 unwortha1240 unworthya1382 unrighteous1533 desertless1556 unmerited1581 undeserving1598 immerited1602 meritless1603 undemerited1629 unmeritable1635 ill-deserveda1666 a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza Querer por solo Querer (1670) iii. 149 The ill-deserved Name to Me of Felisbrave is known already. 1766 J. Langhorne Fatal Prophecy iv. iii, in Poet. Wks. II. 94 There, indeed, Long hast thou play'd the tyrant—long opprest me With ill-deserved favours. 1798 M. G. Lewis Castle Spectre vi. iii. 99 Though ill-deserved by his guilt, Your generous pity still is amiable. 1803 W. Wirt Let. 5 Aug. in J. P. Kennedy Mem. Life W. Wirt (1849) I. viii. 100 He will but echo the popular voice, with the single motive of retaining his ill-deserved office rather than offend the people by honest service. 1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. 41 11 Romance may be credited with having done something to preserve from an ill-deserved obscurity the name of Nekhtneb Kheper-ka-Ra. 1938 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 237 162 In spite of certain shortcomings of this paper to which the writer will in due course draw attention, the consequent apparent neglect of their work is ill-deserved. 1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 282/2 Are the words ‘I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1666 |
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