unworthy

[ UK /ʌnwˈɜːði/ ]
[ US /ənˈwɝði/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. morally reprehensible
    the vile development of slavery appalled them
    a slimy little liar
    would do something as despicable as murder
    ugly crimes
  2. lacking in value or merit
    dispel a student whose conduct is deemed unworthy
    unworthy of forgiveness
  3. not deserving
    the undeserving poor
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How To Use unworthy In A Sentence

  • He just moves on, as if we were unworthy of his attention, like the remoras which hitch a free ride on his flanks, and which he brushes off if they carelessly move within reach of his flippers.
  • I lately had occasion to justify an action to a man," went on Clowes, "but, no, the scurvy fellow would put no faith in my words, insisting that the person I sought to clear was covinous and tricky, and wholly unworthy of trust. Janice Meredith
  • The offender is extruded as unworthy of an honorable calling.
  • Often, alternative perspectives are dismissed as nonscientific, polemical, or otherwise unworthy of attention.
  • The scenes are acted with sledgehammer humour, unworthy of Williamson's usually sleek style.
  • There are times and things concerning which words utterly fail and must fail to give utterance to the feelings of the heart, and this, let me say, is one of those times -- a day that I can never forget, a day for which -- though most unworthy of what has been given me -- I must always feel the devoutest thankfulness to Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885.
  • This genre was always at the bottom of the hierarchy, unworthy of the superior attention reserved for history painting.
  • In a recent article, John Pilger quotes historian Mark Curtis 'characterization of "unworthy victims" as "unpeople" while Herman and Chomsky explain the "propaganda system," played out in the dominant media, characterizes people abused and victimized by us or our client states as "unworthy. "Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
  • I suppose there's a part of me that feels unworthy of happiness and love. Times, Sunday Times
  • The officer rubbed his balding head and uttered something most unworthy. Anti-Ice
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