unworthiness

Example Sentences

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This led to dark and distressing thoughts about her appearance, including ongoing feelings of unworthiness.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

It hurts because it always hurts to be shunned — but if it’s any consolation at all, it also really does seem to be about her derangement, not your unworthiness of courtesy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

“All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value — to you I say, ‘I’m not talking about being as good as you.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022

I could never put myself first..always sacrificing .. feelings of unworthiness .

From New York Times • May 3, 2016

And the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis