Usage examples (18)

• There were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded
• Adjective : the deserving poor; a deserving applicant. ,a criminal deserving of a lifetime sentence
• The birther movement, Lewis argued, is completely fueled by this emotional connection to deservingness, which is primed primarily by racial resentment.
• In fact, because those are measures of "deservingness", of worth, it's probably fair to a large degree.