Deserving and Right

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Deserving

Deserving adjective - Having sufficient worth or merit to receive one's honor, esteem, or reward.

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Right and deserving are semantically related In some cases you can use "Right" instead the word "Deserving" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: deserved, deservedly

Right

Right adjective - Following an original exactly.

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Deserving and right are semantically related in privilege topic. Sometimes you can use "Deserving" instead the word "Right" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: righteous, rightful, righted, rightly, righting

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Triple H: Either he's an insecure glory hog who uses his backstage pull to hold down the more talented and deserving wrestlers, or he's one of the best of all time and has earned the right to, well, use his backstage pull to hold down the less talented and less deserving wrestlers.

Source: Broken Base / Professional Wrestling
Jerkass Has a Point: While Archer is a little overboard criticizing the people for celebrating his original defeat of Castor Troy, he is right to point out the names of the people that were killed in the shootout are more deserving of the toast than him.

Source: Film / Face/Off
Might Makes Right: Sora declares that cute makes right, and for that reason (among others) Shiro is a more deserving king than Chlammy.

Source: Light Novel / No Game No Life

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