The word "deserving" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing someone who is worthy of a reward or recognition, or to describe something that is worthy of being received or accepted. Example sentence: His hard work and dedication made him a deserving candidate for the promotion.
Michael Apted's Up series aside, it's an unprecedented piece of art, and emotionally rich enough to be deserving of multiple Oscars.
You're skirting around the edge of the danger zone on this one already, by trilling about films from Fox and their star "Geo Clooney" deserving Oscars.
Just as last year, the jury gave its ultimate acclaim to a brilliant director who has accumulated an overwhelmingly deserving reputation but had actually given us something less than his very best work.
They are human beings in need of protection and assistance, and deserving respect," he added.
Tax and government now seems to work on this principle of the deserving and undeserving poor with councils checking claimant's booze and fag receipts before giving emergency help, as if we now need to establish a person is deserving before their suffering means something.
They're all deserving winners, but not necessarily for their nominated vehicles.
Yet now we need banks to lend more to deserving customers to sustain recovery while simultaneously reducing their gargantuan size.
One would hope that Hodgson will opt against following suit when it comes to the national team, but some are starting to question – given Kane's form in particular – whether captain Rooney is still deserving of a place in the team at all.
Dr Cliff Mann wants police forces to mount campaigns over several successive weekends against those who are drunk and disorderly to try to reduce the numbers needing help from A&E staff, diverting resources from patients he said were "more deserving".
As American health care professionals who often use the example of the NHS to advocate for a fairer and better system in the US, we have recognised recent developments in England that are deserving of concern.
