unworthy

Besides, keeping this cast together could be a challenge, though not an unworthy one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Because scientific advances don’t discriminate between the “worthy” and those considered unworthy, and because some in the billionaire class think they deserve to live much longer than you do.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025

"I sabotage myself by not asking for help with anything. Asking for equipment, advice or resources feels terrifying. Like I'm unworthy."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025

The systemic anonymizing and blurring of anyone accused without proof of being a gang leader and terrorist is one way to render them unworthy of our concern.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

If you’re made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you’re paid is what you are actually worth.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Hollow-eyed, gaunt, gorgeously ravaged – Mourinho was already in the habit of using his increasingly odd post-match press conferences to rail against the moles, traitors, cowards and unworthies inside his own dressing room.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2015

These unworthies were slammed for their books, which he declared “rubbish” and “awful.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2012

But they were destined to hear more from these two unworthies, and in a most unusual fashion.

From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Stratemeyer, Edward

But those unworthies kept well out of sight, only showing themselves at roll call and when it was time to eat, and then disappearing as if by magic.

From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Stratemeyer, Edward

But those three unworthies did not show themselves.

From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Stratemeyer, Edward

For I believe in some future life for the lower animals as well as for their unworthier lord; and in the immortality of all creation.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

In the qualities of a ruler he was conspicuously deficient; always dependent on others, he ever inclined to the unworthier master.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

The difference is, that in the truly great the unworthier side of nature is viewed as unworthy—is fought against and banished like the plague.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

Ah! that passage of childhood, what a void it makes in the growing heart; and how quietly its place is filled by unworthier influences.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

It was as Margaret Fuller that she took her place among the leading spirits of her time, and made her brave crusade against its unworthier features.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

You're letting the pettiest and unworthiest thing in you—a twisted instinct—consume all that's vital and fine.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul

Your unworthiest servant unless your accepting him to be so have mended him Jo.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

It is not well, O thou Lofty and Divine One, that thou shouldst stoop so low as to console him who is the unworthiest of all thy servants.

From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie

Oh, take that little word "me," and looking up in the very face of God dare to say: "This inestimable treasure—it is for me, the weakest and the unworthiest; it is for me."

From The Master's Indwelling by Murray, Andrew