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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unworthy
Adjective
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They are also known to trick miners into quarrying worthless ore, following veins of what appears to be copper or silver, but when smelted, is found to be without value or, worse, poisonous.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Should the stock rise, the option expires worthless, and the investor keeps the premium.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Nominee Ashby, 65, starred as dishonorable Cameron Kirsten on The Young and the Restless.—
Stephanie Wenger,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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By modern standards, kind of disgusting.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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But stepping into that closet was really disgusting.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Unworthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworthy. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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