UNWORTHY in a Sentence

unworthy

 a.  not deserving

 a.  lacking in value or merit

1  Guide thee I can; and, it may be, even in some sort defend thee; since to protect a Jew against a Saracen, can scarce be accounted unworthy of a Christian.

Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI

2  I am a Saxon," answered Cedric, "but unworthy, surely, of the name of priest.

Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

3  But this was an unworthy feeling.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

4  Her poor mother now did not look so very unworthy of being Lady Bertram's sister as she was but too apt to look.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII

5  Mr Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

6  It was not merely complaisance, it must be a liking to the cause, which made him enter warmly into her father and sister's solicitudes on a subject which she thought unworthy to excite them.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

7  And it may lessen his guilt if I say that it was done in self-defence, and that John Straker was a man who was entirely unworthy of your confidence.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze

8  I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15

9  Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20

10  Denying himself this freak, as unworthy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship's crew from the Spanish Main.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE

11  No, he is not so unworthy as you believe him.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29

12  He could not help feeling now, since the meaning of this system had become clear to him, that the aim of his energy was a most unworthy one.

Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24

13  She forgave him; but from that time more than ever he considered himself unworthy of her, morally bowed down lower than ever before her, and prized more highly than ever his undeserved happiness.

Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 16

14  Lastly, in one corner of the room lay a pile of articles which had evidently been adjudged unworthy of a place on the table.

Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI

15  I am unworthy of such an honor.

The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV

1  He felt unworthy of being married to such an attractive woman.

2  Such conduct is unworthy of praise.

3  He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.

4  He is unworthy to receive such honor.

5  Such concepts are unworthy of educated people and refer to anthropomorphism which has been misunderstood.

6  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.

7  Uneasy with the encomium expressed by his supporters, Tolkien felt unworthy of such high praise.

8  I am fully convinced that the story which led me to commit this indiscretion is absolutely false and unworthy of you.