not deserving
Example Sentences
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“Frankly, they’re not deserving of prosecution,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
These comparisons may be an important cause of imposter syndrome—the suspicion that one is not deserving of one’s achievements.
From Scientific American • May 15, 2023
“I’ve had to flat out lie to staff members who were rated low and were not deserving of it.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2023
If we are not deserving of unique suffering, perhaps we can find a more general grace.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022
But the times were no longer the same, and such a transgression of the bounds marked out by prudence, might well awaken concern in the bosoms of individual statesmen, who were not deserving of reproach.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
