deserving

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.

The 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.

Lewis 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.