entitled
/ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/ adjective B2- Having a title. · Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography'.
- Having a legal or moral right or claim to something. · As a natural-born citizen I am entitled to run for president.· If you were injured at work you may be entitled to compensation.
- Convinced of one's own righteousness (self-righteousness) or the justifiability of one's actions or status, especially wrongly so; demanding and pretentious.
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Do you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none but those who work are entitled to eat?”
“Even the trivial fact that in the year 1865 a picture by Greuze entitled ‘La Jeune Fille à l’Agneau’ fetched one million two hundred thousand francs—more than forty thousand pounds—at the Portalis sale may start a train of reflection in your mind.”
They were rather handsome; had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town; had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds; were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were, therefore, in every respect entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others.
, which will not be yours till after your mother’s decease, is all that you may ever be entitled to.
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