(v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
(v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
(v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(3) I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special attention.
(4) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(6) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(7) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
(8) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(9) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(10) These findings established that the cellular immunological response can be affected by specific inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis and deserve further consideration both under in vitro and in vivo conditions.
(11) The fact that sulfinate salts show activity, both ip and po, suggests that the -SO2Na moiety deserves more attention in medicinal chemistry.
(12) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(13) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(14) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
(15) In the evolution of inflammatory diseases of adnexae algodysmenorrhea and disturbed menstrual rhythm deserves special attention to the clinical interpretation and to the formation of diagnostic hypothesis.
(16) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
(19) The effect of reversing ventricular hypertrophy in patients with and without coronary disease deserves further study.
(20) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
Undeserve
Definition:
(v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(2) They want to deprive him of his undeserved honour and status.
(3) A minister makes the same, apparently common-sense argument: the deficit has to be reduced, everyone has to tighten their belts, no service can be immune – and besides, much of the money was wasted anyway with, let's face it, many of the recipients undeserving.
(4) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
(5) Since that strangely undeserved result in Madrid last November, PSG have gone on a run that makes convincing seem like an understatement.
(6) The working class is redivided into the hard-working taxpayer and the slothful undeserving poor, with the former subsumed into the "people", the latter into its other.
(7) "We still talk about the deserving and the undeserving poor, and about 'handouts'.
(8) The work can be divided into the following four phases: (i) health surveillance of lead workers, (ii) health standard setting, (iii) research for early detection indicators, and (iv) improvement of the work conditions and health surveillance of "undeserved" groups.
(9) Very undeserved but a much better performance than against Leicester ,” he said of the 4-1 win last week.
(10) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(11) Giles Oakley London • In conception and format, it was trite – while being undeservedly pompous and self-esteeming.
(12) So what is happening to her is, like, not totally undeserved and one shouldn't feel bad for her."
(13) When culture secretary Jeremy Hunt argued on Newsnight that it was only fair that welfare parents should control their family size to stay within the new cap, there were authoritarian echoes that the undeserving lower orders should breed less.
(14) There are Rumpole societies of lawyers basking undeservedly in his popularity from Los Angeles to Perth.
(15) As families queued to have their pictures taken with the European Cup and visitors pondered paying £5 for a pint of beer or £100 for a replica match ball, a group of Munich fans insisted their reputation for arrogance was undeserved – before predicting an easy victory.
(16) At a stroke the prime minister and chancellor created a new class of undeserving poor – large families on benefit.
(17) Shareholders need protection from reward for failure and must be able to claw back undeserved pay awards," Wilson said.
(18) Michael Gove surprised his audience at a conference fringe meeting last month with the declaration that Conservatives should talk more about the “undeserving rich” , whose insulation from risk by unearned reward was discrediting the case for free market capitalism.
(19) Deserving sick, undeserving… – we all know where this ends.
(20) Still, he went on, Tugendhat's decision betrayed "the myth that injunctions are handed out 'willy-nilly' to undeserving celebrities".