How To Use Unworthy In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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The offender is extruded as unworthy of an honorable calling.
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Often, alternative perspectives are dismissed as nonscientific, polemical, or otherwise unworthy of attention.
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The scenes are acted with sledgehammer humour, unworthy of Williamson's usually sleek style.
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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.
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This genre was always at the bottom of the hierarchy, unworthy of the superior attention reserved for history painting.
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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"
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I suppose there's a part of me that feels unworthy of happiness and love.
Times, Sunday Times
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The officer rubbed his balding head and uttered something most unworthy.
Anti-Ice
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I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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At its worst, it was fear of authority for its own sake, allowing no questioning of its justice or merit; and the shame was to be found unworthy in the judgment of that authority.
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Every religion has its fundies, people who believe that they are the blessed ones and everyone else is an unbeliever, unworthy.
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The unworthy thought often strikes me, with his work, that little of it is actually necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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He felt unworthy of being married to such an attractive woman.
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They are publicly branded with the degrading suspicion of being utterly unworthy of the name of citizens, and their business arrangements interrupted without warning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anything classified as a ‘minor’ crime is deemed unworthy of their attention.
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This was the more proper because, in a few years after the beginning of the community, European revolutionists were to be scourged with the Syllabus, whose every word agonized the souls of unworthy advocates of liberty.
Life of Father Hecker
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To ask the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Living on a Prayer: the value of Barack Obama's prayer breakfast
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For they strive by a kind of toilsome exercise of the body itself to root out those lusts that are hurtful to the body, that is, those habits and affections of the soul that lead to the enjoyment of unworthy objects.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
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There was no remedy for what was called by Lord Lovat's friends, the "rascality" of the judges: -- and again this unworthy Highlander was driven from his own country to seek safety in the land wherein his offences had received their pardon.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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As tools, these processes and habits don't fit, and the fault is not so much that the object of your studies is unworthy of your scholarly attention as that the analytical methods themselves are inappropriate.
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The true collector should never allow himself to be beguiled into buying an unworthy copy of a book.
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The unworthy thought often strikes me, with his work, that little of it is actually necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Mark's action last night when he refused to speak with her, refused to let her touch his arm, and called himself unworthy was all for her sake; all because he did not want her name sullied with a breath of the scandal that belonged to him.
The City of Fire
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He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic.
The Collectors
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Such a remark is unworthy of notice.
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His lengthy introduction is an ominous, unworthy and unrepresentative opening to an impressive body of work.
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Given that the statement Ann called him on was an opinion -- specifically, that a "council" of bloggers that condemned the unworthy might be a good idea -- I'm not sure why Eric would think that "fact-checking" would have saved him.
Why did Eric Alterman stop doing Bloggingheads?
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A person who cheats is an unworthy winner.
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He felt unworthy of being married to such an attractive woman.
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He and his friends, pursuing “a nobler destiny,” felt “no disposition to truckle to the petty usurper, who came into power against the wishes of the great men of his own party, and whose personal character was unworthy of the favor of the meanest minion that shouted in his train.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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You may feel unworthy of the attention and help people offer you.
Coping with Angina
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Mr. Churchill, whose magnanimity is as great as his power of mischief, half rose to his feet, and murmured, with a bow of his head, "If I am not unworthy, Sir.
What Is The British Point of View
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The final denouement involving a haggis is unworthy of all concerned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dr. Gene pointed out that the word in that verse is "unworthily" not "unworthy" -- an adverb, not an adjective -- it's about whether I approach the Lord's Table with a proper reverence and understanding of its significance.
Gene Scott, RIP - BatesLine
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You frequently feel unloved and unworthy.
The Sun
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Either way it is unworthy of a libertarian modernizer like AK.
Faith in Leaders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Wallace returned a gracious reply to this speech; and turning to Bruce, said, "This knight is my friend; and though from peculiar circumstances neither of us choose to disclose our names during our journey, yet, whatever they may be, I trust you will confide in the word of one whom you have honored by the address you have now made, and believe that his friend is not unworthy the hospitalities of him who was once king of Scots.
The Scottish Chiefs
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For my money, this thoughtfulness makes the moments of gratuitous blasphemy (which do happen, but are surely allowed too) disappointingly glib and unworthy of the rest of the script.
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Not to come because you feel unworthy is a denial of the gospel.
Christianity Today
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I make not any doubt, but almes-deedes and prayers, are very mighty; and prevailing meanes, to appease heavens anger for some sinnes committed; but if such as bestow them, did either see or know, to whom they give them: they would more warily keepe them, or else cast them before Swine, in regard they are altogether so unworthy of them.
The Decameron
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Rather, in this character test, Esau has denigrated the birthright and has proven himself unworthy of its privileges and obligations.
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How they look has been deemed unworthy of comment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The movie is convicted of being an unworthy pretender to the throne.
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In many of the halls still standing are arabesques, fashioned in mosaics, fret-work and delicate tracery not unworthy of a place in modern decorative art.
Cradle Lands of Canadian Indians
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His lengthy introduction is an ominous, unworthy and unrepresentative opening to an impressive body of work.
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He is unworthy to receive such honor.
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However variously these anthropomorphic ideas may have shaped themselves in dualistic and pluralistic religions, all in common retain the unworthy conception that God (_Theos_) and man (_homo_) are organised similarly and according to the same type (homotype).
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science
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The governing body reviewed scenes involving the pair that were captured in a video, but have deemed their actions unworthy of sanction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Naturally such a person was unworthy of any serious study, especially anything to do with politics or power.
Times, Sunday Times
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This essay shows its effects on real people - those going along are "worthy" and those who don't or don't matter are "unworthy unpeople.
"Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
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It's a weak supposition - unworthy of the sharp-witted Miss Bennet.
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We are also aware of sins unexpiated which make us unworthy to be in His presence.
Joyeux Noël !
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'indefiniteness' and 'general imbecility' of what we had to offer -- all so unworthy a _Bostonian_ audience -- we commenced, and with many interruptions of applause, concluded.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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So do I, base, unworthy creature! the disgrace of a good family, and the property of an infamous rake, as questionless you will soon find yourself, if you are not already.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Eventually, the central committee of the National Liberation Front judged Captain Versace to be a reactionary, which meant that he was unworthy of the Viet Cong's so-called "lenient and humanitarian" treatment.
Versace, Humberto R.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde
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The inhabitants of Skien," he said with grim humor, "were quite unworthy to possess my birthplace.
Henrik Ibsen
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The unworthy thought often strikes me, with his work, that little of it is actually necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite why the Home office felt her crime was unworthy of her being extradited is a matter for conjecture: could it be that as a Communist she enjoys special protection from Labour sympathisers?
A Useful Lesson for Lefty Europhiles
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The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
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A government that does not advance its people is unworthy of respect.
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Doesn't that make us both just a couple of unworthy screwballs?
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Yet that's just why, tested against everyday life as most people experience it, the bulk of all this intellectual hectoring is inhumane rubbish — contemptuous of desires that aren't necessarily as unworthy or manipulated as charged.
Material Girl
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In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these “fierce vanities,” and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester.
Kenilworth
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The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
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Ho! Pentheus, thou that art so cager to see what is forbidden, and to show thy zeal in an unworthy cause, come forth before the palace, let me see thee clad as a woman in frenzied Bacchante's dress, to spy upon thy own mother and her company.
The Bacchantes
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“Ring up Ernst Hasselmeyer in Berlin and ask him if he knows anything about parachronistic incongruities, and if he doesn’t, ask him who does,” Mr. Dunworthy said.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Local wars were habitually regarded as something temporary, accidental, untypical and uncharacteristic of the modem armed warfare, and unworthy of a serious study.
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A group of private high profile business citizens to advise the government, and make sure the government does not "overstep" their boundaries, and redistribute money to unworthy areas, groups, causes, etc.
Hot Air » Top Picks
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4 By this false faitour, who unworthy wears faitour > impostor, cheat wears > bears, carries
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Sportsman he was, and rake and gambler, as were we all; and I have seen him often overflushed with wine, but never heard from his lips a blasphemy or foul jest, never a word unworthy of clean lips and the clean heart he carried with him to his grave.
The Reckoning
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The therapist then shifted to processing within a view of self-context, often characterized by fears of being imperfect, unworthy, or unlovable.
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Your rights as a user can be revoked any time Redmond deems you an unworthy user through "deactivation" they don't even have to send Moose and Vito to give you kidney punches, they are resident on your platform.
Blah, Blah! Technology
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We must never forget that in spiritual as in physical climbing it is not every one who can bear the strain of the steeper path; there may be many for whom what seems the slower way is the only one possible, and we should indeed be unworthy followers of the great Teachers if we allowed our ignorance to betray us into the slightest thought of despisal towards those whose choice differs from our own.
The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
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--- Be it known to you, that it is not defect of power in us which hath occasioned the assembling of this congregation; for, however unworthy in our person, yet to us is committed, with this batoon, full power to judge and to try all that regards the weal of this our Holy Order.
Ivanhoe
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You frequently feel unloved and unworthy.
The Sun
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The unworthy thought crossed my mind that her present misbehaviour rendered her eminently blackmailable where Popplewell was concerned - but it was a purely Pickwickian reflection, you understand.
THE NUMBERS
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There are those who argue that romantic fiction is, at best, on a par with soap opera and Hello magazine: in other words, unworthy of serious attention.
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Parrot; extravagancies unworthy of an heroic poem, and would much better have become Ariosto, who professes le coglionerie.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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But it is one and the same God, the Father of our Lord, from whom also the prophets had their mission, who does indeed, through His infinite kindness, call the unworthy; but He examines those who are called, [to ascertain] if they have on the garment fit and proper for the marriage of His Son, because nothing unbecoming or evil pleases Him.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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‘The report was a very mean act, unworthy of a reputable media organization like the BBC,’ he told a press conference.
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He seems at this point to affirm the religious perspective of his enslavers: He condemns himself and assumes that he is unworthy, even as he prays for divine deliverance.
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By a second order, which issued from the same jealous and inconstant councils, Ursicinus was again despatched to the frontier of Mesopotamia, and condemned to sustain the labors of a war, the honors of which had been transferred to his unworthy rival.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.
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You may feel unworthy of the attention and help people offer you.
Coping with Angina
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Such a remark is unworthy of notice.
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There is a sort of listlessness -- or, perhaps, more properly, reverie -- in which many indulge, which is as sinful as it is unprofitable; and there are modes of thinking and subjects of thought, which are, to say the least, unworthy of a rational, intelligent and immortal spirit.
The Young Woman's Guide
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If this was party policy based on the attractiveness of a summer tease, it was a poor joke unworthy of even the worst seaside comic.
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But if they thought the professor's speech was accurate, and they just wanted to avoid the hassle and cost of a lawsuit, then I think that this is a reaction that's unworthy of a center of learning.
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It is an unworthy fear: not so long ago, white colonials who founded many of these clubs fretted in the same way about the social consequences of admitting Indians.
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'I thought you would deem such a name unworthy to be mentioned.'
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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_unworthy_, and dignor, _deem worthy of_; as, -- dignī honōre, _worthy of honor (i.e. in point of honor_); fidē indignī, _unworthy of confidence_; mē dignor honōre, _I deem myself worthy of honor_.
New Latin Grammar
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Investigations like this and others prove the death penalty is this country's ultimate punitive measure used almost exclusively against "unworthy, unpeople victims" to eliminate the unwanted, and those targeted are largely defenseless against it.
"Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
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They found that they belong on this stage, three weeks after they were deemed unworthy of such lofty company.
Times, Sunday Times
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To label those of us suspicious of the EU and its activities as ‘members of extreme right anti-European political parties’ is an unwarranted libel unworthy of an elected representative.
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The officer rubbed his balding head and uttered something most unworthy.
Anti-Ice
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He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic.
The Collectors
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He adds, therefore, p. 276, “To say that God putteth a case in such solemnity and emphaticalness of words and phrase as are remarkable all along in the carriage of the place in hand, of which there is no possibility that it should ever happen or be exemplified in reality of event, and this in vindication of himself and the equity of his dealings and proceedings with men, is to bring a scandal and reproach of weakness upon that infinite wisdom of his which magnifies itself in all his works; which also is so much the more unworthy and unpardonable when there is a sense commodious, every way worthy as well the infinite wisdom as the goodness of God, pertinent and proper to the occasion he hath in hand, which offers itself plainly and clearly.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The manager gave the impression that the whole idea was a distant fantasy unworthy of immediate attention on Friday, but there was an element of enthusiasm too.
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But now, as to be silent of men's defects and vices is a piece of flattery, and flattery a degenerous and unworthy thing; yet, that all people may not promiscuously think themselves called upon to reprove and declare against whatsoever they see amiss in others, and so mistake that for charity and duty, which is indeed nothing else but sauciness and impertinence, it will be convenient to shew,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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The names with which they adorned their maps were a piece of courtiership and a means of currying favour with the great and powerful, just as their espionage, and their supply of illicitly-obtained and flavoured information to Decaen in Mauritius, were essays to advance their own interests by unworthy services.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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In the meantime I had been quizzed, scrutinised and repeatedly asked to testify to my fair-mindedness and incorruptibility, with an insistence that began to make me feel unworthy: I was not putting in for canonisation, after all.
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I renounce all such unworthy thoughts.
A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
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Whitehall, hangs in the great upper rotunda, which is a setting not unworthy of its fame.
In and Around Berlin
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Quibbles about performance and lighting aside, “Roma Sub Rosa’s” peek into the final moments of Tiberius is not an entirely unworthy way to spend twenty-eight minutes.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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This can be a problem if you have a tendency to worry a lot about putting people out, or feel unworthy of favours.
Coping with Bulimia
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The officer rubbed his balding head and uttered something most unworthy.
Anti-Ice
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The officer rubbed his balding head and uttered something most unworthy.
Anti-Ice
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Susanna now again belonged to me in another, truer, and more real way than I had ever dreamt of or suspected, as I comprehended that everything that could be called chivalrous sacrifice on my side only lay lower than our love, was even simply an unworthy offence to it.
The Visionary Pictures From Nordland
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It is here explicitly declared that this doctrine, the obedience of slaves to their masters, are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ; and the arguments of its opposers are characterized as doting sillily about questions and strifes of words, and therefore unworthy of reply and refutation.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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- poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study.
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Not to come because you feel unworthy is a denial of the gospel.
Christianity Today
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You may feel unworthy of the attention and help people offer you.
Coping with Angina
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Low scores indicate self-doubt, a belief that one is unworthy or undesirable, and lack of self-confidence.
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I do not mean to suggest, however, that this aspect of the novel is unworthy of attention.
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There is also a copartnership typal of zippered beset that has a disconformity of unworthyer sub-crates, one of which is the perfect spread to entrust my Moleskine Memo fob (I used to attend to orders my PDA in there).
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I feel unworthy of her friendship.
Times, Sunday Times
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In many cases this obscurity is well-deserved; many early works are mediocre, naïvely imitative stuff, unworthy to stand in the canon with Seymour, Walcott, Selvon, Naipaul or Lamming.
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The cultus is the heathen element in the Israelite religion -- the word heathen not being understood, of course, in an ignoble or unworthy sense.
Prolegomena
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Finding a bird and Making a difficult retrieve is what the best dogs do as a matter of course, and it occurs as a matter of course and is unworthy of comment.
Five Good Small-Breed Bird Hunting Dogs
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Such conduct is unworthy of praise.
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I suppose there's a part of me that feels unworthy of happiness and love.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not hold that anything happens by chance, or that the albatross is unworthy of being treated with humanity, because it acts in what you call a savage way.
The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
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This is unworthy a fair election in a democratical party – don´t you agree?
Pro-Clinton protestors make their way to Washington
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But neither shall any unworthy person covet after it, where none is permitted to be but he who is worthy.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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The dharma shastras discuss at some length the issue of unworthy or even dangerous guests, yet advising that no matter what the circumstances, the visitor should at least receive food.
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But turpeth root is seldom used alone, for its action is so uncertain that Sir W. O'Shaughnessy pronounced the plant unworthy of a place in the Pharmacopoeia of
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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These people have often had a difficult childhood, lack self-esteem and feel unworthy.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are publicly branded with the degrading suspicion of being utterly unworthy of the name of citizens, and their business arrangements interrupted without warning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Naturally such a person was unworthy of any serious study, especially anything to do with politics or power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Were the Right subject to Brutus 'dagger, it would be unworthy to wear a kinglier than Caesar's crown.
The Assassination of President Lincoln
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On the other hand, Mr. Pitt and his party, in their eagerness for place, did not hesitate to avail themselves of the ambidexterous and unworthy trick of representing the India Bill to the people, as a Tory plan for the increase of Royal influence, and to the
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
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More unworthy tattle emerges about his godson.
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Homophobia is also a social ill, and to dismiss the ads and the idea of same sex marriage as "silly" is to once again categorize gays and lesbians as second-class citizens, unworthy of the equal protections of the laws of this country.
All You Need is Loving
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These people have often had a difficult childhood, lack self-esteem and feel unworthy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He teases the astrophysicists with his advanced technology then withholds the information because he deems us unworthy, then backhandedly compliments our biodiversity.
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One can easily become disenchanted with over-professionalized people who are undoubtedly unworthy when subjected to the judgment of more reflective scholars.
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I renounce all such unworthy thoughts.
A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
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He was so unworthy, a lowly thief, a rat, unfit to breathe Her Majesty's air.
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“She speaks ever kinglike, and kinglike will I answer her, so she bring no request unworthy herself or me.”
The Talisman
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Since thou hast spurned the grace of God and made thyself unworthy of the office of preaching, we rightly deprive you of this office.
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In that case -- the _Odyssey_ being later than the original kernel of the Iliad -- the _Odyssey_ ought to give us gods as undignified and unworthy as those exhibited by the later continuators of the _Iliad_.
Homer and His Age
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Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
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And shall I count it unworthy to pass these few in-door hours of rain in the emblazonment of their titles?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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The vibrant subculture of battle reenactment is too often thought of as merely a hobby or as activity unworthy of sustained analytical attention.
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The average salesperson is too quick to dismiss these people as being unworthy of any effort at all.
The Guide to Greatness in Sales
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There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?
Shakespearean costume - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Otherwise I might be considered undependable, or unworthy.
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We seem to want to talk to exactly the people in the past that most scribes in the past found unworthy to record, and so we seek their voices by indirection.
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The time speedily arrived, however, when a persistence in this reticence would have involved me in an unworthy paltering with truth.
Essays
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Feeding the Fire is in fact almost unworthy of attention, because it is too unexercised to become dangerous; it will draw no real notice from critics, and reach at best a slender few hundred readers.
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The unworthy thought occurred to me that this great actor might be bored.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Not to come because you feel unworthy is a denial of the gospel.
Christianity Today
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He purges them of all traces of polytheism, idol worship and superstition and all that is associated with these rituals, habits and traditions which are unworthy of man.
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Though far more subtle than in Skinner, however, the discrimination here is nonetheless invidious - as it so often is when some people in the population identify others as unworthy of parenthood.
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Likewise, historians of photography had paid relatively little attention to tintypes as being unworthy of serious scholarly attention.
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Sacramentarians; it pronounced, as Calvin never would have done, that the unworthy communicant receives Our Lord's Body; and it met his objection by the strange device of "ubiquity" -- namely, that the glorified Christ was everywhere.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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When a bookseller drops in, they'll slosh their unworthy coffee in my heavenly tea mug.
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But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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However, the mighty barbarian is deemed unworthy to enter Paradise by the Ancestors and is reincarnated in order to redeem himself.
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The manager gave the impression that the whole idea was a distant fantasy unworthy of immediate attention on Friday, but there was an element of enthusiasm too.
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But then the king was in the wrong too, for, since the laws against this toleration stood enacted by the consent and concurrence of his predecessors, he should not have allowed them to be infracted and virtually annulled through the influence of a foreign bride and an unworthy favorite.
Charles I Makers of History
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a mere caption unworthy of a reply
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Be it known to you, that it is not defect of power in us which hath occasioned the assembling of this congregation; for, however unworthy in our person, yet to us is committed, with this batoon, full power to judge and to try all that regards the weal of this our Holy Order.
Ivanhoe
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I have for years, during the life of the insinuator, held such self-justification unworthy of me; now even decency demands silence.
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
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A lot of christians are unhappy about their chronical diseases and pain, so they go to healers over and over and over again - and end up disappointed and depressed, thinking that they are unworthy christians, that they don't BELIEVE enough, that their -faith is too weak.
Non-human
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Pushing his way through the other passengers, with a discontented expression upon his genial face that rather misbecomes it, he emerges into the open air, to find that a smart drizzle, unworthy the name of rain, is falling inhospitably upon him.
Molly Bawn
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Religio Medici
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The EDP We Care Appeal's bid for £500 from the Big Lottery to pay for one holiday for one child carer is rejected for being “an unworthy cause”.
Archive 2005-01-01
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His application to business was proverbial, though his attention to accounts is often held against him as unworthy of a monarch.
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It is a hard-mouthed saying, quite unworthy of a gentleman or lady in the best sense of those words; and I can use no stronger condemnation.
To Let
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The South African attacks were cowardly and unprovoked, and unworthy of a coach of his reputation.
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They are publicly branded with the degrading suspicion of being utterly unworthy of the name of citizens, and their business arrangements interrupted without warning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even ardent royalists may soon begin to feel that their idols are unworthy of either respect or affection.
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It was an unworthy way for one fine champion to speak of another and many told Singh so at the time but the man himself remained unrepentant.
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It is unworthy of the confident and assertive India of today.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is unworthy to receive such honor.
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Lithuanian was considered to be a barbarous language, unworthy of religious use, so Polish was used for all official religious business.
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And though the necessities of modern life, the decay of wealth, the dwindling of old aristocracy, and the absorption of what was once an independent state in the Italian nation, have obliterated that large signorial splendour of the Middle Ages, we feel that the modern Sienese are not unworthy of their courteous ancestry.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
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I suppose there's a part of me that feels unworthy of happiness and love.
Times, Sunday Times
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And this is a new corroborant of one among the noblest of intellectual truths, viz. that the books which please, are always books that, in one sense, benefit; and that the work which is largely and permanently popular -- which sways, moulds, and softens the universal heart -- cannot appeal to vulgar and unworthy passions (such appeals are never widely or long triumphant!); the delight it occasions is a proof of the moral it inspires.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
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Hush! said he, I charge you! call not the dear girl by any name unworthy of her.
Pamela
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trolly," this shabby one, which in other circumstances would have been regarded as unworthy of our notice, appeared now as our ark of refuge.
A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia
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Paul warns the Corinthians that if they eat and drink in an unworthy manner, they will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
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I feel unworthy of her friendship.
Times, Sunday Times
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My advice to Steve who feels he may get “lost” in a sea of photos he may or may not deem unworthy is to learn a bit more about tags and keywords.
Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You for It - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Such conduct is unworthy of praise.
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He did also ungird the knightly sword belt from him, though he was absent, and by the judgment of all declared him infamous, a scoundrel, unworthy the name of Christian.
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They could pass as marginalia, ephemera or mere daily-life minutiae unworthy of serious attention.
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There are plenty of false martyrs out there that are completely unworthy of our sympathy.
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Dr. Gene pointed out that the word in that verse is "unworthily" not "unworthy" -- an adverb, not an adjective -- it's about whether I approach the Lord's Table with a proper reverence and understanding of its significance.
Gene Scott, RIP - BatesLine
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If you hunt on public land and are not covered in the latest Mossy Oak garb and stainless steel weaponry from head to toe, you're looked on as some kind of slovenly hillbilly, unworthy to even be in the field let alone shoot anything.
A NEW BREED OF HUNTER
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At the same time, one cannot give in to unworthy and unrealistic demands.
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This was poor design, unworthy of a competent contractor.
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If women with arrest records are categorically unworthy of trust, wouldn't that apply to those Melissa Farley cites as wanting prostitution to remain criminalized as well as those who argue for legalization?
Monica Shores: Prostitution "Experts" Versus Prostitutes: Why Don't All Sex Workers Deserve a Voice?
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What was cried up by the wily merchant often turned out to be most unworthy of praise.
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Otherwise you could end up feeling unworthy of the love of a decent man.
The Sun
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The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.