After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.

After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.

This argument deserves a closer examination.

the grantees named in the questioned deed executed by their father richly deserved receiving the family home.

Perhaps they do, but they don't deserve that the rest of us contribute money or appropriate public funds for the purchase of pictures and the construction of buildings.

c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman
A man that hath / So well deserved me.

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