Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ill-deserved

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.04 in modern English

Syllables: il-l-de-served
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

undeserved, unwarranted

Example Sentences

"King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...]."

Inflected Forms

more ill-deserved (comparative) most ill-deserved (superlative)

Questions

What does ill-deserved mean?: undeserved, unwarranted

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