undeserving

Example Sentences

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Still, he said, “I didn’t have the guts to get out for another six weeks. I was playacting. Undeserving was the point—Jerry was the better candidate.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

Q. Undeserving Promotion: I recently received a promotion to team manager at my company.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2015

Q. Re: Undeserving Promotion: I really disagree with your response to the man who knows that he was unfairly promoted.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2015

Laura Undeserving of anything more than Jonas’s perfectly timed words: “Nice speech.”

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2015

Undeserving as he was, and little as he thought of all these agonies that it cost me—agonies which should have made him wholly and gratefully mine to his life's end—I loved him.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles