| 释义 |
ill-deserved, a.
Brit. |ˌɪldɪˈzəːvd|, U.S. |ˌɪldəˈzərvd|, |ˌɪldiˈzərvd|
[‹ ill- comb. form + deserved adj. Compare earlier well-deserved adj.]
Not deserved; unwarranted.
a1666R. Fanshawe Hurtado de Mendoza's Querer por Solo Querer (1670) iii. 149 The ill-deserved Name to Me of Felisbrave is known already. 1766J. 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. 1798M. G. Lewis Castle Spectre vi. iii. 99 Though ill-deserved by his guilt, Your generous pity still is amiable. 1803W. 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. 1896Eng. 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. 1938Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (A.) 237162 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. 1987R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder Third in R. Curtis et al. Black-Adder (1998) 282/2 Are the words ‘I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation? |