Deserving
Deserving adjective - Having sufficient worth or merit to receive one's honor, esteem, or reward.
Return and deserving are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Return" instead a noun "Deserving".
Nearby Words: deserved, deservedly
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One particular storyline had a Mafia boss that Tommy Monaghan had crossed agreeing to drop the vendetta in return for an unpaid hit... but Tommy quite reasonably figured that the boss would pick someone that Tommy wouldn't consider deserving of death as the boss's way of punishing Tommy.
Source: Hitman with a Heart -
Derailing Love Interests: Many people feel like Zessica was more caring about Amata than Mikono and was more deserving of him, since fans felt that Mikono was either a bad character herself or it just didn't seem like she cared about Amata enough to return his feelings.
Source: Anime / Aquarion Evol
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