undeserving
Example Sentences
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"You believe that other people are overestimating your abilities and intelligence, and you fear that one day you'll be exposed as incompetent and undeserving of your success."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
I’ll let you make your own list of who Musk and other followers of this mean little philosophy consider undeserving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
Conceding Brigitte’s argument that he’s an undeserving candidate to buy Cassell, Roberto admits, “It’s true: Everything I know about France I learned from ‘Ratatouille’!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Another problem with purely categorical pardons is that they create the risk of granting relief to some who meet the stated parameters but are for other reasons undeserving.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
She can’t go forward, because forward is more miles of self-imposed punishment—flat back-country roads plus the heat of summer, red T-shirts, and the inconceivable and undeserving support of strangers.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
