unworthy

Honour your joy, do not shy away from the good that is trying to reach you, do not convince yourself that you are unworthy of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

“It eventually created a hostile environment for us, to intimidate us. It said that Palestinian students didn’t matter, that our concerns are unworthy of task forces, of investigations, of any protection.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Polish Order of the White Eagle bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then President Andrzej Duda can be revoked if he is deemed to have "committed an act making them unworthy" of the honour.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Lawmakers in both parties called the matter unworthy of criminal scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Ugwu felt stained and unworthy as he went about his new duties after the priests left—distributing garri, breaking up fights, supervising the scorched and failing farms.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

What these two unworthies did in the future to worry the Rovers will be told in another volume, to be entitled, "The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine."

From The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer

These two unworthies discussed the resurrection of Fairfax, the place of the confab being O'Connor's tackle-room and the time being the night following the fourth straight victory of the Curry colours as borne by Eliphaz.

From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

Those two unworthies had come forth looking both cowed and excited, and they had rushed up to their rooms to pack their belongings without delay.

From The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer

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 Mrs. Russell Barrington

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 title-page gives a London publisher as well as an Anglo-Athenian one, and Mrs. Johnstone benevolently adapted her labours to her countrywomen and the unworthier Southrons alike.

From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt

The obstinate calumny of his scepticism served as a pretext to the King's conscience for the unworthier instinct of personal dislike.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

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 Martin Farquhar Tupper

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

I am the unablest adviser of a thousand, the unworthiest of ten thousand; yet I hope I may presume to assert what follows without just offence.

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

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 George Saintsbury

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 Marie Corelli

But I have nevertheless a much more laudable motive—I should think myself the unworthiest of creatures, could I be brought to slight a dear friend, and such a meritorious one, in her distress.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson