Crossword clues for deservedly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deservedly \de*serv"ed*ly\ (d[-e]*z[~e]rv"[e^]d*l[y^]), adv. According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Wiktionary
adv. (context degree manner English) In a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.
WordNet
adv. as deserved; "he chalked up two goals which deservedly gave Bolton their second victory of the season" [ant: undeservedly]
Usage examples of "deservedly".
It is deservedly a popular remedy for worms, and when combined with Podophyllin, is very efficacious in removing the pin-worm.
I were to give you anything it would be thought that I was actuated by the hope of favours to come, and I should be laughed at, and deservedly, as a dupe.
It is the chain of royal patronage that Peter Paul Rubens deservedly had and that many lesser painters of the time received from their royal sponsors but Rembrandt never achieved it.
Their warlike youth afforded an inexhaustible supply of recruits to the legions stationed on the banks of the Danube, and which, from a perpetual warfare against the Germans and Sarmazans, were deservedly esteemed the best troops in the service.
Alexander was deservedly celebrated for possessing all the pertinacity of a bankruptcy-court attorney, combined with the obstinacy of that useful animal which browses on the thistle, he required but little tuition.
Philanthropy, in commemoration of two of those cardinal virtues which have so eminently marked that deservedly celebrated character through life.
Black Currant Jelly is deservedly prized for its usefulness in colds and is both laxative and cooling.
It is He who when He foreknew that man would in his turn sin by abandoning God and breaking His law, did not deprive him of the power of free-will, because He at the same time foresaw what good He Himself would bring out of the evil, and how from this mortal race, deservedly and justly condemned, He would by His grace collect, as now He does, a people so numerous, that He thus fills up and repairs the blank made by the fallen angels, and that thus that beloved and heavenly city is not defrauded of the full number of its citizens, but perhaps may even rejoice in a still more overflowing population.
For the reason why such gods seemed to us not to be able to give even an earthly kingdom, was not because they are very great and exalted, whilst that is something small and abject, which they, in their so great sublimity, would not condescend to care for, but because, however deservedly any one may, in consideration of human frailty, despise the falling pinnacles of an earthly kingdom, these gods have presented such an appearance as to seem most unworthy to have the granting and preserving of even those entrusted to them.
He'd been daft enough to indulge in 'what if' retro-teen fantasies, and reality was deservedly ripping the piss out of him for it.
If Satan interfered, so that the client chose the Lovestone to buy, the man would gain the woman for himself and have a deservedly better life the kind of life Norton himself would have liked to have with Orlene.
Incidentally, Trumbull’s recent and deservedly popular painting memorializing the death of General Montgomery omits me entirely while adding to the poignant scene several officers who at the time were nowhere in the vicinity but who are now, so to speak, everywhere.
Blount was writing a novelized account of Corporal Piggott’s Raid, a deservedly obscure episode which got Corporal Piggott of the 104th New York (Provisional) Heavy Artillery Regiment deservedly court-martialled in the summer of ‘63.
If, for example, a man, through intemperance or extravagance, becomes unable to pay his debts, or, having undertaken the moral responsibility of a family, becomes from the same cause incapable of supporting or educating them, he is deservedly reprobated, and might be justly punished.
The name of Poggius the Italian ^50 is deservedly famous among the revivers of learning in the fifteenth century.