unworthy

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The CHP deemed the creative handiwork unworthy and cited the driver with a fine of $197 for driving without a proper license plates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

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

"I sabotage myself by not asking for help with anything. Asking for equipment, advice or resources feels terrifying. Like I'm unworthy."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025

Ugwu felt stained and unworthy as he went about his new duties after the priests left—distributing garri, breaking up fights, supervising the scorched and failing farms.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 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 Stratemeyer, Edward

But they were destined to hear more from these two unworthies, and in a most unusual fashion.

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

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 Ramsay, R.

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 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 Barrington, Mrs. Russell

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 Vera, [pseud.]

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 Tupper, Martin Farquhar

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 Stebbing, W. (William)

Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Your unworthiest servant,   Unless your accepting him to be so have mended him,                     Jo.

From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Walton, Izaak

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 Richardson, Samuel

Oh, take that little word "me," and looking up in the very face of God dare to say: "This inestimable treasure—it is for me, the weakest and the unworthiest; it is for me."

From The Master's Indwelling by Murray, Andrew

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

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