deserving

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The Crash will come when the deserving are allowed to default from lack of true profits.

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  1. adjective Worthy, as of reward, praise, or aid.
  2. noun Merit; worthiness.

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  • The Crash will come when the deserving are allowed to default from lack of true profits. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • Maybe we could devise a system with an "upper" house for the deserving, and a "lower" house representing the common people? —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Unfortuntely it's highly unlikely the MVP will go to the deserving -- D-Wade.
  • It's the type of record where you may pick out three or four guys who are deserving, and he's certainly in the picture. —  Halos Heaven
  • Cutting-edge technology, devastating firepower, and intense dogfights bestow this new title a deserving place in the prestigious Tom Clancy franchise.
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deserving:   deserved ·  deserve ·  deserves
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  1. Middle English deserving; verbal noun of deserve, v.
  2. Ppr. of deserve, v.
 

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