How to Use unworthy in a Sentence

unworthy

adjective
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  • Does this mean that these clients are unworthy of a loan?
    — Peter Shubenok, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • There's the unknowable, and then there's the not-worth-knowing, and both may seem to be unworthy of the chase.
    — Philly.com, 5 July 2017
  • Things which the world at times leaves us feeling unworthy of.
    — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2018
  • For a long time, Milan’s present has felt just a little unworthy of the club’s past.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • The whole thing has become a clown show unworthy of a great nation.
    — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Give it to someone unworthy and more harm than good can come.
    — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Which is part of the issue with Cyrano, who may feel unworthy of love.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • This front office has twice deemed players available to them at the top of the draft unworthy of that shot.
    — cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
  • On another night, the ball would’ve been a souvenir, the reward unworthy of the risk.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The insults lobbed at both are unworthy of the president of the United States.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 July 2017
  • There are parts of the country where those who need help are dismissed as unworthy.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Salles’s film is a much lesser thing, but by no means unworthy.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • On the surface, this role seems unworthy of Pine’s talents.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Proponents of the changes say the state could still reject unworthy projects.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That doesn’t mean the Crusaders are unworthy of acclaim.
    — Luis Fernando Llosa, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
  • On the album, Smith confronts demons from the past, telling off unworthy lovers who used and mentally abused the singer.
    — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 July 2021
  • The base EcoBoost four-cylinder engine remains unworthy of the rest of the Mustang and our 10Best list.
    — Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2018
  • That is a sick thing to tell a woman who already feels unworthy and unlovable.
    — Brooke Obie, The Root, 22 Jan. 2018
  • But LB Prince Shembo proved unworthy of the risk the team assumed investing a fourth rounder in him.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • At the start of the film, Thor is exiled on Earth and deemed unworthy to wield his hammer, which has crashed into the desert in New Mexico.
    — Wired, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
  • You might be tempted therefore to write it off as unworthy.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This boot camp-like setup cleansed the group of unworthy athletes before the Games began.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
  • As a gay man I have never been made to feel uncomfortable or unworthy to be on that stage.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Vote for those of quality and vote against those unworthy of re-election.
    — WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The fact that so many unworthy players went so far is simply too damning.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In the view of most foreigners, the Egyptian people were unworthy of their heritage.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Critics moan about the expense, dismissing such speeches as stunts unworthy of academia and not worth the price.
    — Robert Shibley, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Or there are ways that people are positioned by the show as unworthy of love, which can reveal some really ugly cultural norms.
    — Jodi McAlister, refinery29.com, 16 Feb. 2024

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