unworthy

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Recent Examples of unworthy By undermining grievances, supervisors signal to their employees that their experiences are invalid or unworthy of attention. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Until then, the staff is cycling through unworthy backups behind Austin Hooper, who finished with one catch. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025 This unworthy and deplorable act undermines the memory of those who died for France. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025 Young lawyers and career government lawyers are often idealistic, willing to sacrifice personal gain for the public good, but the prospect of working for this attorney general might seem the worst sort of dead-end job — one requiring blind obedience to unworthy goals. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unworthy
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Adjective
  • Another recurring feature of the biggest asset booms is outright chicanery, such as fraudulent accounting, the marketing of worthless securities, and plain old stealing.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Marks drew a parallel to the late 1990s internet boom, which promised to transform the world — and ultimately did — yet left a trail of worthless companies in its wake.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Daniel Kraus’s latest high-concept literary trapeze act follows a band of dishonorable soldiers on a mission to rescue a fallen angel from the mire of no-man’s-land.
    Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Within an outlying mining operation, a Mechanist mourning the murder of her husband is bestowed a strange pet as part of a bargaining chip from a dishonorable alien race.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • That would probably be the most disgusting kind.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Continue reading … 'DISGUSTING' – Jen Psaki jokes Usha Vance scared of her husband, ripped for 'disgusting' comments.
    , FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Unworthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworthy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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