undeserving

Example Sentences

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This is how I turn chatbot-generated personal statements into shining portraits of undeserving applicants, for a price.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

"You believe that other people are overestimating your abilities and intelligence, and you fear that one day you'll be exposed as incompetent and undeserving of your success."

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

Conceding Brigitte’s argument that he’s an undeserving candidate to buy Cassell, Roberto admits, “It’s true: Everything I know about France I learned from ‘Ratatouille’!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Although there was survivor’s guilt, Knapp said, “there was no sense from my other neighbors that anyone was undeserving of having their house standing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

“Wickham is not so undeserving, then, as we thought him,” said her sister.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen