My friends later gave me a well-deserved scolding.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Dagan: How Not to Catch a Thief] Reference

I look forward to the MPAA's well-deserved demise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blah, Blah! Technology] Reference

The award is well-deserved and the hotel is unreal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jordana Zizmor: The Perfect Day in Chicago, POTUS-Style] Reference

Clarence received a well-deserved standing ovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheryl Wills: Siblings on the Frontlines for People With Disabilities] Reference

Just the latest in a long line of well-deserved payouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Kreisler: Get Rich Cheating: Hayward's Severance] Reference

To the well-deserved power which is hers in the household.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Edie Ochiltree to bestow a well-deserved chastisement upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

The article was a well-deserved tribute to a musical genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Origin of the Species] Reference

"He's having a well-deserved break with his family," Hodgson said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liverpool relief after Fernando Torres says he wants to stay] Reference

On reentering the greenroom, after two well-deserved recalls, Eugenie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But let me take this occasion to give them a well-deserved one anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor's Desk] Reference

Singapore's leaders have a well-deserved reputation for being a tad uptight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viva... er, Singapore?] Reference

"Don't be matter-of-fact!" says Miss Kavanagh, giving him a well-deserved snub.    From Wordnik.com.  [April's Lady A Novel] Reference

Maybe Dole needs to commit a couple of ritual (if well-deserved) staff firings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dole's Problem] Reference

With my arrogance of youth came the conviction that my success was well-deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paulina Porizkova: The Responsibility Of Beauty] Reference

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has a well-deserved reputation for speaking his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Pelosi Power] Reference

 They don't need to know all her business because of one, well-deserved psychotic break.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puppy Love] Reference

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has a well-deserved reputation for not mincing words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Marshall: A Discouraging Vote on School Reform] Reference

I am about to get my reward, my well-deserved reward at last, from all of my loyal subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference

General John Neville, a man of great wealth and well-deserved popularity, accepted the office of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

The painter's friend could answer nothing; he had received a well-deserved rebuke for his flattery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Ida Becker has won well-deserved success with her children's songs, which are inimitable in their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

But I couldn't help admiring the discipline, which did not break down even on that well-deserved joy day.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

This well-worn and well-deserved reputation was no inducement for us to stop, so we made speed for Brighton via.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Champney was not minded to administer this well-deserved chastisement in the presence of the dog's protectress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

We have just heard, from the eloquent lips of Sir John M'Neill, the well-deserved praises of the English bards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

Mr. Pillsbury takes advantage of his well-deserved popularity in the Province to tell the Blue Noses some home truths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Then, if we are beset by some well-deserved epidemic, we resentfully demand to know why such things are allowed to occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

Otherwise, despite your legal win -- a well-deserved legal win -- you are still an affront to all equality seeking groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma Ruby-Sachs: DADT Win Can't Save Log Cabin Republicans] Reference

This admirable weekly for the youth of this great land is now well established and has a large and well-deserved patronage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference

There's one local farmer near me whose entire family tree holds a well-deserved reputation for hard, self-interested dealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

While Debian has a well-deserved reputation for being rock-solid and stable, sometimes its reaction to your commands may be unexpected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

Even were there no doubt of the prisoner's guilt and hanging a well-deserved punishment, Captain Forest, nevertheless, liked fair play.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Dreams Come True] Reference

Then Nort stopped, for he realized that, though he might apply some well-deserved slang names to the two professors, neither of them was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

This admirable weekly for the youth of this great land is now well established, and has an increasingly large and well-deserved patronage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference