deserving
qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor;a deserving applicant.
meriting; worthy: a criminal deserving of a lifetime sentence.
Origin of deserving
1Other words from deserving
- de·serv·ing·ly, adverb
- de·serv·ing·ness, noun
- self-de·serv·ing, adjective
- un·de·serv·ing, adjective
- un·de·serv·ing·ly, adverb
- un·de·serv·ing·ness, noun
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How to use deserving in a sentence
So he tried to find nature, he ends up in a Brooklyn slum, and is plucked from that and goes to one of those schools they have in New York where the deserving poor are given special education.
Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Ep. 346 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | July 29, 2021 | FreakonomicsNarrowing down 1000 entries to six mentoring partnerships meant we, unfortunately, weren’t able to match every qualified mentor entry with every deserving mentee application.
The Search Engine Land mentorships have been announced; Monday’s daily brief | Carolyn Lyden | July 12, 2021 | Search Engine LandHer approach doesn’t make her any less deserving of a winner compared to other contestants who take influences from other cuisines.
Top Chef: Portland Was the Kindest Season Yet. Does the Finale Change That? | Elijah Wolfson | July 2, 2021 | TimeThey blame themselves for their weight and judge themselves as inferior and deserving of societal stigma.
Weight Stigma Is A Burden Around The World – And Has Negative Consequences Everywhere | LGBTQ-Editor | June 7, 2021 | No Straight NewsThe mindset shift needs to change to feeling deserving and worthy of the pay you desire.
5 Steps to Overcoming Negative Money Experiences to Get the Pay You Deserve | Kimberly Wilson | June 4, 2021 | Essence.com
The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.
Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention.
A creature deserving of pity and a medical diagnosis that will grant them a special status in society.
Surviving War Doesn’t Turn All Veterans into Victims, Sometimes it Helps Them Grow | David Morris | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Medal of Honor has been awarded only 13 times in more than a decade of conflict while deserving recipients are passed over.
There have been too many deserving candidates for it to be any other way.
All this will, doubtless, throw a number of deserving persons out of employ.
But it is at least deserving of notice, that the very few apparent exceptions to this rule evidently tend to confirm it.
Colchester is an interesting town, deserving of much longer time than we were able to stay.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyLewis Hayden, of Boston, is well deserving a place among the examples of character here given.
She did so many things deserving punishment that the teacher was often perplexed to know what course to take with her.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. Byrum
British Dictionary definitions for deserving
/ (dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ) /
(often postpositive and foll by of) worthy, esp of praise or reward
rare a merit or demerit; desert
Derived forms of deserving
- deservingly, adverb
- deservingness, noun
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