deserving

[US]/dɪ'zɜːvɪŋ/
[UK]/dɪ'zɝvɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. worthy, meriting, particularly deserving of care, deserving of help.

Phrases & Collocations

well-deserved

deserving of

Example Sentences

A job well done is deserving of praise.

All the causes seem equally deserving.

Any unemployed person reckons as deserving government help.

making invidious distinctions between the ‘deserving’ and the ‘undeserving’ poor

it's a pretty suspect outfit, deserving of the consistent bagging it gets from customers.

None is of freedom or of life deserving unless headily conquers in anew.

The priciple of hominism is developed in modern planting design, in which the functionism of green environment accupies a deserving position.

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