'are more deserving' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone or something is more deserving or entitled than another. For example, "The Pioneers, who have worked hard for years, are more deserving of recognition than the later arrivals."
besides, Hard-Fi are more deserving.
Surely these writers are more deserving of special attention than, say, stodgy old HG Wells?
Ironically, two books where the animals are bit players, or avatars for their child, are more deserving of shelf space.
Subjects will turn down charitable gifts when they are not entitled to them, and when they know that taking the money will mean less for other people who are more deserving.
Smith said his 15-word amendment, co-authored by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R VA), would cancel a 6%, $15.3 million increase requested by the Obama administration for NSF's social, behavioral, and economic sciences (SBE) directorate and move the money into four other NSF research directorates that Smith feels are more deserving.
You may question the results and think that it's obvious that we should replace a number of winners with grocery stores you think are more deserving.
You may question the results, you may think you know better than we do how to order this list, you may think it obvious that we should replace a number of winners with restaurants you think are more deserving.
Helpful staff are more deserving of your money.
Few are more deserving of an even break this weekend than he.
Do we truly believe that C.E.O.'s like Mr. Fuld are more deserving of tax dollars than sick children?
But he seems slightly troubled, either by the feeling that it's all come too easily, or that perhaps others are more deserving of his success.
