"ill-deserved" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ill-deserved",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ill-deserved",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ill-deserved (comparative more ill-deserved, superlative most ill-deserved)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:",
          "text": "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— [...].",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "undeserved, unwarranted"
      ],
      "id": "en-ill-deserved-en-adj-Gf75wktk",
      "links": [
        [
          "undeserved",
          "undeserved"
        ],
        [
          "unwarranted",
          "unwarranted"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ill-deserved"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ill-deserved",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ill-deserved",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ill-deserved (comparative more ill-deserved, superlative most ill-deserved)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "English adjectives",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:",
          "text": "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— [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "undeserved, unwarranted"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "undeserved",
          "undeserved"
        ],
        [
          "unwarranted",
          "unwarranted"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ill-deserved"
}