Word Finder - deserving

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To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.

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After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.

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To earn, win.

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To reward, to give in return for service.

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To serve; to treat; to benefit.

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Desert, merit

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Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious

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the deserving poor

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Meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)

He is fully deserving of his place in the Hall of Fame.

Julius is deserving of particular honour for his patronage of art and literature.

I realize in most ways Edith isn't deserving of too much sympathy, but I still think of her as a tragic figure.

For them Israel is the centre of the world, the point around which all other things revolve - every other people derives its claim to consideration from its relation to Israel - the only subject deserving attention is the extent of the Jewish nation's obedience or disobedience to its divinely given law, on which depends its prosperity or its adversity.

He knew absolutely no social distinctions in his willingness to perform services for the deserving.

Sir George Grey sought to deal with the difficulty as a whole, and to provide for all classes of criminals, the most heinous deserving severe correction and the minor offenders in the earliest stages of misconduct.

If theosophy were to be judged solely by the published revelations of this "Secret Doctrine" it would hardly be deserving of serious consideration; for, as suggested in the separate article on Madame Blavatsky, the revelations themselves appear to have been no more than a crude compilation of vague, contradictory and garbled extracts from various periodicals, books and translations.

Strange to say, however, no mention is as yet made by any of these works of Krishna's favourite Radha; it is only in another Purana - though scarcely deserving that designation - that she makes her appearance, viz.

His letters, in which he analyses the various relations in which such a man must stand, and prescribes the course of action suitable for each, are valuable and deserving of attention.'

The Apophthegms, though hardly deserving Macaulay's praise of being the best collection of jests in the world, contain a number of those significant anecdotes which Bacon used with such effect in his other writings.

Deserving of attention are also the Cogitationes de Natura Rerum, probably written early, perhaps in 1605, and the treatise on the theory of the tides, De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris, written probably about 1616.

Minor collections deserving mention are the museums of the geological survey and the Caroline Medical Institute, and the archives in the record office (Riksarkivet).

Railways.-The first ordinary roads deserving the name of highways were made about 1660, and canal-building began in 1 Newcastle, North Shields, South Shields.

P. ponderosa, the yellow pine of the Pacific coast of America, belongs to this section; it is a fine timber tree deserving of notice from the extreme density of its wood, which barely floats in water; it abounds in some parts of the western range of the Rocky Mountains, and is the most widely distributed pine tree of the mountain forests of western North America.

His name, however, is identified with great causes, justice to the Jews and humanity to the Indians, and the fact that he was in advance of his age led to many of his troubles, while his disinterestedness in money matters is deserving of all praise.

In addition to the municipal support of the poor-houses there are large funds derived from bequests for the relief of the necessitous and deserving poor; while night shelters and people's kitchens have been organized on an extensive scale for the temporary relief of the indigent unemployed.

Mumford, who had torn down a United States flag placed by Farragut on the United States mint; and for this execution he was denounced (Dec. 1862) by President Davis as "a felon deserving capital punishment," who if captured should be reserved for execution.

The only other stream deserving of mention in this province is the Samur.

On the Pacific coast of America, in New Zealand and in Japan a pilchard occurs (Clupea sagax) which in its characters and habits is so similar to the European pilchard that its general utilization is deserving of attention.

From the repeated correlative dicta that "nothing is due without deserving," and that a thing done "for God's sake," i.e.

In this neighbourhood as well as to the south-east of Hjorring, slight elevations are seen, deserving the name of hills in this low-lying district.

In one view it gives the believer strength to attain, by God's supernatural aid or " grace," a goodness of which he is naturally incapable; in the other view it gives him an assurance that, though he knows himself a sinner deserving of utter condemnation, a perfectly just God still regards him with favour on account of the perfect services and suffering of Christ.

It is deserving of notice that the British character of the company is insisted upon in each case in the charter which calls it into life.

She arrived at the house determined to be a better wife to such a deserving husband.

The room even smelled like Sasha.  Rhyn cursed his dead half-brother silently and left, traveling the black stone halls of the fortress in Hell where he'd spent most of his life.  He reached the door before the block of cells where Sasha had collected his favorite creatures in Hell to create his own twisted, private zoo.  They'd referred to the sick Immortal as the zookeeper, a creature as deserving of a cell as any.

It was a shameful episode and one that was fully deserving of political and media approbation.

But his victims are usually boorish, greedy or in some way deserving of his attentions.

Both memorial types are richly deserving of all the attention they receive.

A thoroughly deserving winner I'm sure you will all agree.

Surely our own survivors are equally deserving of such support?

That's an idea truly deserving of the title of an Heritage.

In fairness City never gave up hope and never stopped working, with Hoskins and Smith up front being especially deserving of praise.

Are they preaching in all the inhabited earth or just to the ones they deem deserving?

He gave his money away with goodwill to everybody who asked and seemed deserving.

He distributed his gifts widely and would even forgo a fee from a deserving patient.

Both guns and ammunition are still available, of course, and we have a loaner here at Gunsite for the deserving poor.

A total of 2,005 commemorative medals have been struck by the Royal Mint and will be awarded to the to the most deserving volunteers.

So, please allow me to add to the chorus of deserving praise already posted!

These decorations with brilliants and rubies were personally bestowed by the Emperor on deserving recipients at the Kaiser's own expense.

The rescue shelters are working overtime to try to save as many deserving dogs as possible.

Decaisnea - Curious ailantuslike shrubs, natives of mountain woods, China, and India; as yet little known in England, but deserving of a place as soon as they can be obtained, among rare and beautiful shrubs.

Both the Carnation and the Pink, from the beauty and sweetness of their bloom and the cheerful effect of their foliage in winter, are well deserving of cultivation in all gardens where soil and climate suit these flowers.

There are several varieties of the common Snowdrop Tree-Meehani and laevigata and parviflora-as yet rare in gardens though deserving a place.

A fine distinct plant, well deserving of culture.

Wild Senna (Cassia) - The only hardy member of a great family, with us it is nearly herbaceous, dying back, and so deserving a warm place in a free soil.

Whether she's acting, producing, writing or awarding scholarships to deserving students, Kenya Moore's beauty shines through in a number of ways.

Still, so many cases exist where ships and aircraft were lost in this part of the world that it is very well deserving of its title as one of the deadliest places on earth.

There was an option to nominate and award a daytime type Emmy in 1968, but the judges elected that no one nominated was deserving of the statue and thus daytime was snubbed.

The five discs of the Complete Third Season include webisodes, Army Wives Gives Back where the cast surprises deserving military families, and a feature on filming in Charleston.

The magazine started awarding the "Soapy Awards" in 1977 to deserving daytime dramas and their stars.