deservingly

In a deserving manner.

Adverb

  1. In a deserving manner.
    • She was deservingly jailed for her crimes.

    Synonyms: meritoriously rightly worthily becomingly chastely continently correctly decently decorously deservingly dutifully duteously modestly morally nobly right-mindedly righteously virtuously

Origin

From deserving + -ly.

Forms

more deservingly most deservingly

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