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Again and again, the Dalai Lama returned to his message that all people are connected, deserving of respect, worthy of love and compassion.
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A former prime minister of Portugal, Mr. Guterres, 67, has tried to cast himself as the man who can deliver a leaner, nimbler United Nations — and therefore one deserving of United States support.
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Because he was captured at such a young age, some called him a child soldier who was dropped off in the war zone by his father and deserving of rehabilitation not interrogation.
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First Known Use of deserving
14th century
deserving
Definition of deserving
1 : having good qualities that deserve praise, support, etc. : meritorious, worthy rewarding deserving workers scholarships for deserving students
2 : appropriately having or being given something specified —used with of a proposal deserving of support [=a proposal that deserves support] a criminal deserving of punishment
deservingly
adverbdeservingness
nounExamples of deserving in a Sentence
He's a very deserving young man.
The church provides aid to deserving families.
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Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.
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With this help, many deserving students are given the financial assistance in the continuation of their education.
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Such reductions, Republicans say, will force states to become more efficient, eliminate fraud and abuse, and serve the most deserving populations first.
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Perhaps now (or eventually) the gold standard of film would be extended to equally deserving filmmakers of and films about diverse communities.
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Not in a modest, deserving way, but inelegantly and imperfectly.
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Wood has a message for Republican lawmakers in Washington who have proposed dramatic cuts to Medicaid: Families like hers are deserving and need help, not slashed funding.
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Just as natural selection favors those species best adapted for survival, the theory goes, capitalism rewards the smartest and most deserving among us.
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The wild card here, and the player who replaces a very deserving Randall Cobb, is tight end Martellus Bennett.
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First Known Use of deserving
1549
DESERVING Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of deserving for English Language Learners
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: having good qualities that deserve praise, support, etc.
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