unworthy

“Who are you to call me unworthy or despicable when you don’t even know me!!” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The British constitution, if perhaps “noble for the dark and slavish times in which it was erected,” was unworthy of a free people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

A second friendly defeat in four days was no calamity since it came on the back of an admirable performance, unworthy of booing.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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

They were an unworthy target and they passed unmolested through the busiest trade routes of the True Sea, flying neutral Kerch colors.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

To say that those two unworthies were surprised, would be putting it mildly.

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

Those two unworthies turned up once again, as related in the volume entitled "The Rover Boys Under Canvas."

From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields 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

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 Julia Ward Howe

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

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 [pseud.] Vera

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

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

To Godefroy's threats the Indian answered that "white-man talk—not true—of all," pointing to Jack Battle, "him no friend great white chief—him captive——" Then Godefroy burst out with the unworthiest answer that ever passed man's lips.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

He becomes cynical as he sees how easily the spot light is made to flash upon the unworthiest figures by the flimsiest mechanism.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn

If I profane with my unworthiest hand   This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this,— My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand   To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In vain he accosted her in the humblest and most repentant manner, calling himself the unworthiest of mankind, and entreating to be allowed to love her.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso