What's the difference between deserving and leggy?
Deserving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deserve
(n.) Desert; merit.
(a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
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.
Leggy
Definition:
(a.) Having long legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a fairly valiant attempt from Manchester United , but as their players grew leggy from chasing shadows, they dropped deep and let Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery wreak their unique brand of havoc.
(2) They all hover around a standard Australian size 8-10, and all have a similar svelte, leggy look.
(3) Or, put another way, pot them right the way up to their baby leaves, burying the leggy stem.
(4) Seedlings grown on a windowsill always grow leggy, because there is only one source of direct light.
(5) Voterà in aula le leggi che rispecchiano il suo programma chiunque sia a proporle February 27, 2013 The Financial Times agrees that it's a significant step: Italy’s political deadlock following inconclusive elections took a turn for the worse on Wednesday when Beppe Grillo announced that his Five Star Movement would not give a vote of confidence in parliament to any government led by the two main parties.
(6) There were leggy performances, lapses of concentration, and off-key passes scattered liberally across the drenched Emirates pitch.
(7) 2.57pm GMT 71 min: Pearce goes on a barnstorming, leggy surge from the halfway line, all the way to the edge of the box where he falls over after a double challenge from Berthold and Augenthaler.
(8) There was Torres, tearing beyond the visitors' confused last line of defence and away from a leggy Martin Demichelis, to convert into the gaping net.
(9) Other roles are unclear: both Magic Mike's Olivia Munn and Gwyneth Paltrow could be Charlie's "impossibly leggy" wife from the novels.
(10) For Catherine it has come in the form of a new relationship – she is now engaged to Christian “Leggy” Langdon, who was once their bass player and musical director and produced Creation.
(11) Coutinho has appeared leggy at times of late, struggling with a cluttered schedule, but that was sparkling reward.
(12) These babies love to grow, so turn seedlings often to prevent lopsided, leggy growth.
(13) Their dominance was underlined by two moments of jaw-dropping quality conjured by a fluid and inventive midfield, players revelling in Nemanja Matic’s leggy presence at their back, though it was the visitors’ ease in possession which truly separated them from their spirited hosts.
(14) They had struggled to the finishing line – flat, leggy and suffering.
(15) Arsenal looked just as Wenger had feared: leggy, with little zip to their passing and only a brief passage of play, at 1-1, when they showed any real control.
(16) Kane is scoring again after a slow start but often seems a bit leggy.
(17) So far he's asked him what “leggy” means, what “dead legs” are, as well as a few awkward pauses when he's clearly trying to figure out what Wright has just said.
(18) If you don’t give actors tools,” she has said , “insecurities, bad habits and quirks and ticks, you’re just playing ‘blonde and leggy’.
(19) Bruce felt his team were leggy after the efforts they put into that uplifting win over Liverpool, and regretted that he did not have the luxury of rotating.
(20) They’d been dating for like two weeks when she said: ‘Can Leggy come on the road and play bass with us?’” Allison recalls.