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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The problem with covering Clavicular is not that he is unworthy of attention.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

The systemic anonymizing and blurring of anyone accused without proof of being a gang leader and terrorist is one way to render them unworthy of our concern.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

It is unworthy of it to be cramped.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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

During that time, they saw Slugger, Nappy and Codfish a number of times, but all of those unworthies seemed to give them a wide berth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

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

I know it would cost you a wrench to take me, a greater wrench than to take the least and the unworthiest of your own people.

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

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