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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The one hundred senators may yet prove themselves to be unworthy of that faith.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • My husband, Dave, declared me unworthy of the task and tackled it himself.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • The film’s director Paul Haggis even considers the film to be unworthy of the honor.
    — cleveland, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Most of these dogs have been deemed unworthy of entering the family home.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Lord is a petty villain who feels unworthy of Wonder Woman’s attention — even when the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • To shame their mistakes and call them unworthy of forgiveness.
    — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Someone got consigned to a court unworthy of their status!
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 12 June 2019
  • Not only is the script unworthy of its talent, Malcolm & Marie is barely about Malcolm and Marie.
    — refinery29.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Who managed to bring forth, upon that unworthy scaffold, a tale about the state of the nation, about the place of the black peoples within that nation, and his own place within both.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
  • What would an omnibus bill be without handouts to unworthy causes, starting with the people who wrote the bill?
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 Mar. 2021

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