entitled

[entitled]

The adjective entitled means you have a legal right to something. If you are entitled to your mother's house when she passes away, that means it's written in her will that she gave it to you.

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Adjective S.
qualified for by right according to law; "we are all entitled to equal protection under the law"

Adjective S.
given a title or identifying name; "the book entitled `A Tale of Two Cities''"


imp. & p. p.
of Entitle


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Usage Examples

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

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Other Usage Examples

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

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