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’s not for you to decide that we’re unworthy, that we’re some pip-squeaks you don’t have to show respect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

A legal statement which UK Athletics produced years after the incident was described by the prosecutor as '"a deeply unworthy document by a national sporting body and one of which it should be ashamed".

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Whose children were they, she wondered, whom Lady Constance found so unworthy of discussion?

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

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

Insensibly, she branched into reminiscence, telling caustic histories of these Leicestershire unworthies, who were all unknown to Susan; and the girl hardly listened, sitting with her cheek on her hand and a dreaming brow.

From Barnaby A Novel by R. Ramsay

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

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

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

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

That thy lifes too meane To satisfie the unworthiest of the Campe For the effusion of a loyall drop.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

Degree being vizarded, Th' unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask.

From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov

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

It is not the King who commands you, but the humblest, the meanest, the unworthiest of mortal men.

From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy