worthiness
Example Sentences
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Emphasize the word “I” and his question is about worthiness due to his lack of obvious qualifications for the monumental leadership position being offered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
“Tax time is when it’s revealed how the year went,” said Joyce Marter, a licensed psychotherapist in Cape Coral, Fla. “There can be issues of power and control, worthiness and resentment.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
The woman who’d spent her life angling for worthiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
She and Luthen also share a ruthless devotion to pragmatism, although he applies that to the worthiness of strangers’ lives, whereas the good senator can’t help but sell out her loved ones.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025
Then the old warrior would walk to the young one, embrace him, acknowledge his worthiness.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
