deserving

Example Sentences

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The solid, stolid, self-satisfied Edwardian England that had seemed so deserving of his lashes was itself now wounded, and something in Galsworthy shifted accordingly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Are we still deserving of kindness when someone knows our darkest, most cruel impulses?

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

I hope his story can be remembered not because of its tragedy, but because it demanded a future where people deserving refuge are not thrown into peril.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

"But that's not to say that Ryan Coogler is not equally deserving."

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

Once I have given birth, I will give my child to some gentlewoman more fit and more deserving to be a mother than I am.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein