The phrase "deserved pride" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of pride that has been earned by working hard or achieving a goal. For example, "After a year of hard work and dedication, Sarah felt a sense of deserved pride when she got a promotion at her job."
The Bergmanns take deserved pride in their (nearly) all-American wine list.
The home crowd took the outcome for what it was, an opportunity to relish a moment of deserved pride.
As live spectator attractions go it rates alongside angling, Nordic skiing and chess but the participants take deserved pride in their masochism.
What a shame, given that no two people have been larger in the Democratic Party over the last quarter-century and given the party's deserved pride in its embrace of same-sex marriage now.
"Look, there is so much expectation placed on me now, because I don't lose very often," he said with a mixture of regret and richly deserved pride.
If you don't feel it yet, recall something you did well in the past, and fills you with deserved pride, let that feeling carry you into the room.
But Gary Hill's video installation "Crux" deserves pride of place in any jock art show.
Magritte's enigmatic picture of a smoker's pipe, captioned "This is not a pipe", deserves pride of place at the mortgage lender's Newcastle head office.
I wish I could say that only a tiny fringe believes Christian practices deserve pride of place in public life and policymaking.
Like me, Ms. Spieler believes that macaroni and cheese, which is often served alongside fried chicken or barbecue, deserves pride of place as a main dish.
I haven't quite decided which of two deserves pride of place on my own list: The fact that the Bush administration never formally debated whether it was "a good idea" to invade Iraq?
