A distinction to which he was unentitled. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : His executive position entitled him to certain courtesies rarely accorded others. ,What was the book entitled?. From Dictionary.com.
White folks would rather be entitled and impoverished than to be unentitled and prosperous. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama In Ohio, But...] Reference
Good father or bad, Jose Menendez was not unentitled to a certain amount of vexation over the two arrogant sons he had raised. From Wordnik.com. [Menendez Justice] Reference
Because they lack an "urban hukou," they are forever designated "temporary residents" -- unentitled to subsidized public housing, public education beyond elementary school, public medical insurance and government welfare payments. From Wordnik.com. [China ??hukou' system deemed outdated as way of controlling access to services] Reference
In a nutshell, this insanity exists because of a prevailing mental disorder called dogmatic relativism which sabotages individuals into feeling unentitled to uphold individual principles or to distinguish right from wrong for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Some words on the 'Free Speech' fallacy and the true purpose of blogs] Reference
To then turn around and claim the exact opposite – that Olympia cannot know her own mind, and is utterly unentitled to enjoy a photograph of herself, or to comment intelligently on it, because of her age- is deeply, insultingly hypocrtical. From Wordnik.com. [2008 July 07 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference
Movement may not be deemed irrelevant nor unentitled to consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference
He shrank from forfeiting this respect, unentitled though he was to it. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
How many examples are there of MPs acting in "good faith" regarding overclaimed and unentitled allowances and expenses?. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
It described hospital managers taking credit cards off wealthy Nigerians and wheeling the unentitled out of the hospital doors. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
The government says videos showing animal cruelty should be treated like child pornography, unentitled to any constitutional protection. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
He no longer resented her sweet solicitude, although he considered himself unentitled to it, and he rejoiced under the shelter of his fine new coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
State workers who misused vehicles, received unentitled overtime pay and concealed private employment during work hours cost the California hundreds of thousands of dollars this year, a new audit shows. From Wordnik.com. [KSBW.com - Local News] Reference
Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
These, then, are the possibilities before us: not only does the PA not represent the Palestinian people, it is also, on top of that, either corrupt to an almost unimaginable level; or it is profoundly incompetent and guilty of squandering the rights and hopes of a people that it is unentitled to claim to lead; or it is interested not in its people's rights and hopes but rather in perpetuating its own status as the day-to-day caretaker of a permanent Israeli occupation -- in which case it is no less collaborationist than the Vichy "government" of Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s. From Wordnik.com. [Saree Makdisi: Last Straw for the Palestinian "Authority"?] Reference
Again: Not saying you’re unentitled to use any criterion that you prefer. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Casual Thoughts I Had While I Was Filling Out My Hugo Nomination Ballot and Looking at the Best Fan Writer Category « Whatever] Reference
Anonymous said ... bah, I'm not buying it. maybe i'm in a bad mood, but as a similar watcher-of-the-golden-children, i say, you missed out on some perks that you were just as entitled to as they were (or that they were just as unentitled to as you were. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Child that Wasn't] Reference
A child unentitled to her father's name!. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
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