deserving of
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Examples
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn't desire his kiss, she won't be free.
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
Your relations are more deserving of your generosity.