unworthy

District Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island, said the department “has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“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 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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

He’d never felt so low and dishonorable, so unworthy of having a friend.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

What these two unworthies did in the future to worry the Rovers will be told in another volume, to be entitled, "The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine."

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

But those unworthies kept well out of sight, only showing themselves at roll call and when it was time to eat, and then disappearing as if by magic.

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

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

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

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

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

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

"This is the unworthiest action of your life, my son De Charnisay," he denounced, shaking his finger and striding down at the governor, who owned the check by a slight grimace.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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

Your unworthiest Servant Except your accepting have mended him John Donne.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

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

From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare