This account of how a sturdy and friendly young American wins the heart of the irascible and hostile Earl of Dorincourt, the grandfather who has hitherto refused to see him, acquired a largely undeserved reputation for sentimentality.

The reputation of sheep and goats for turning grasslands into deserts is largely undeserved, he said.

International human rights experts say that this is largely undeserved.

Twelve years ago, in 1994, a tide of public commendations, largely undeserved, for representing the chief informant in a bribery scandal that had rocked the Kindle County Superior Court carried George onto the criminal trial bench without the usual party kowtowing.

Flint had put Etamin on the Cluster map and brought his species a notoriety that was largely undeserved.

As Mr. Schaller describes him, MacArthur was an unscrupulous, self-serving soldier whose manipulation of image and good fortune gave him a largely undeserved reputation for effective military leadership and allowed him to hide repeated efforts to win the Presidency.

With the great white shark - a big shark with a fearsome, but largely undeserved reputation for attacks on humans - frequenting the KwaZulu-Natal coast, this is more than an academic interest.

The GO-300's tainted reputation was largely undeserved, since its problems were the result of pilots who were unfamiliar with gear reduction engines simply not operating the engine as specified in the C-175 Pilot's Operating Handbook.

At Williamsburg Manor, residents and managers can agree on one thing: the transient, negative reputation of communities such as theirs is largely undeserved.

He often insisted that he was overrated and that the praise and distinction heaped upon him were largely undeserved.