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How to use unworthy in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective, noun

Unworthy means not worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless. Example: “Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.”

Examples of unworthy by meaning

adjectiveNot worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.

  • Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703

More sentences with unworthy

  • It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.2024, Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane, page 58. From the entry glob
  • “Conspiring to keep unworthy children from being included in birthday parties, play dates, and Scout troops.”2006 March 21, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, chapter 2, in A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry mafiosa
  • Or be found out, collared by the house detective as an interloper unworthy of the surroundings.2005 April 24, Denis Horgan, “The scene of the South”, in Spartanburg Herald-Journal, US, retrieved 06 Feb 2010. From the entry house detective
  • However, one of the many possible grounds for NoRomoDom is that Mulder is unworthy of Scully.1997 December 31, Andrew In Amherst, “Re: Who is really the star??”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet). From the entry noromodom
  • God, i am sooo unworthy of even hugging such a noble creature.1997 March 14, Growltiger, “Furry sexuality”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet). From the entry footpaw
  • You might define obstinacy as holding on to small ideas or unworthy aims with a death-grip.1914, Leander Sylvester Keyser, A System of General Ethics. From the entry death grip
  • It would be my opportunity to save Crystal from a more unworthy suitor: Rodney Hunter, the Pepe Le Pew of the seventh grade.2004, Dale Andrew White, Moe Howard Died for Our Sins: Made-To-Fit Tales for the Maladjusted, page 56. From the entry Pepe Le Pew
  • No! - she had stopped caring for him - if she ever had cared - because he was unworthy of her, he, the mere dollarchaser.1913, David Graham Phillips, Degarmo's Wife, And Other Stories, page 179. From the entry dollarchaser
  • Duchess Meg soon forgot this unworthy wedding-gift, such was her rapture in the other, the so august, appurtenances of her new life.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry appurtenance
  • Here Jesus is challenged as to why he preaches unto publicans and others, aren't these people unworthy, why would you talk to such filthy and lowsome people.2015, Walt English, “Right Beneath Our Noses, All This Time”. From the entry lowsome
  • Long lists resulting from the listing technique will often become short poems after you and the student writer's classmates help cull out the unnecessaries, the ungainlies, and the unworthies.1966, Stephen Dunning, Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Poetry, Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, →OCLC, page 32. From the entry ungainly
  • As a matter of fact, the luncheon fare, when it made its tardy appearance, was distinctly unworthy of the reputation which the justly-treasured cook had built up for herself.1914, Saki, “The Stake”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts, London: John Lane, pages 202–203. From the entry tardy

Meaning of unworthy

  1. adjective Not worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.
  2. noun An inadequate person.

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Questions about unworthy in a sentence

How do you use unworthy in a sentence?
Unworthy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.”
What is a short sentence with unworthy?
“God, i am sooo unworthy of even hugging such a noble creature.”
What does unworthy mean?
Unworthy means not worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.

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