Sentence examples for was never deserved from inspiring English sources

Surprising for his critics, at any rate: Houellebecq says his reputation as the bad boy of French literature was never deserved.

Hype is never deserved, and often counterproductive.

Cisco, great as it may have been, never deserved to be the most valuable company on earth.

The second argument turns, that is, on a retributivist conception of punishment a conception according to which a punishment is appropriate only if it is deserved and a further claim to the effect that a punishment is never deserved in the retributivist's sense if the crime was not efficiently caused by the agent to whom the punishment is issued.

Don't defile the American flag as an act of protest or satire - you may find the actions and policies of the U.S. government to be immoral, but the flag itself, as a symbol of the values of liberty and justice upon which the nation was founded, is never deserving of disrespect, even if you think the nation hasn't lived up to these values.

She started out in care but until the day she died, at the age of 36 and horribly famous, she was never cared for as she deserved.

Wegner, who died last month, was never the household name he deserved to be, even if his illustrations are recognisable to anyone who's seen them – and the ones in Fattypuffs and Thinifers are some of his best.

It's the kind of game you sit down with and wonder how it was never the commercial success it deserved to be.

Two days after the bassist's death, Dave Davies posted a statement on his message board expressing deep sorrow over the passing of his former band mate and stating that Quaife "was never really given the credit he deserved for his contribution and involvlement [with The Kinks]".

But he was never a hero and does not now deserve to be deemed a villain.

Why underestimating a food resource was never favored by selection in our model deserves further investigation.