Diversification and investing for the long term still made more sense than buying stock in companies hardly deserving of early-stage venture capital.

And yet it all but shattered your life and mine and all our work, and killed an unfortunate, rash young man no worse than the most of men, and hardly deserving of death.

Flight, however, would be a simple matter, hardly deserving of its title.

"And I welcome any aid that you four might offer, though I feel that I am hardly deserving of it."

What he calls a novel is hardly deserving of the name . . . So why is one inclined to forgive this book's faults?

The Quinn family described the allegations as "baseless and hardly deserving of comment".

They pulled the Lancia off to the side of the road梐 road that was hardly deserving of the name, for its pavement was crumbled and pitted by neglect.

What he calls a novel is hardly deserving of the name.

It's plenty tough on miscreants, but hardly deserving of William Gibson's woundingly dismissive tag line, "Disneyland With the Death Penalty."

Even eschewing the inevitable comparisons with Mozart's sublime masterpiece, it seems a pretty feeble effort, mildly diverting to hear once perhaps, but otherwise hardly deserving of one's hard pressed time, income and shelf space.