Definition of "well-earned" []

• Deserved (adjective)

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• "The show needs to break its habit of using patients to reflect on the doctors, but in this case, the twist is interesting, well-earned and in some ways unexpected."
• "The European Forum for New Ideas where I also had been invited to speak, held concurrently in the nearby seaside resort town of Sopot bore witness to that success with over 900 business delegates from Poland joining in a well-earned festival of self congratulatory debate."
• "My stepdaughter has finished her degree and after a well-earned (self-funded) holiday in Thailand, this week moved to London to look for a job."