worthier

Example Sentences

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They almost certainly could have been put to work on worthier causes.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

Extensive development work is being conducted to give old clothes and textiles a worthier end.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

It’s become a cliché to praise a filmmaker for loving his characters, as if doing so made said characters worthier of our interest, or if humanism were an inherent artistic virtue.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Another painting, from a third and much finer series known as the Scuola degli Schiavoni cycle, offers worthier compensation for the missing Ursula works.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favoured; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens