undeserving
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˌʌndɪˈzɜrvɪŋ/
:
indigno
- She felt undeserving of the praise she received for her hard work.
- the undeserving poor
- an undeserving group
I think in many ways I feel highly undeserving of the things I've gotten.
- I think in many ways I feel highly undeserving of the things I've gotten.
- To say that these people are undeserving of pardons is a vast, vast, vast understatement.
- The CARES Act additionally prohibited the SBA from looking at tax return data that could have excluded undeserving applicants.
- He is saying I am undeserving, I am all talk, I am a joke.
- Maybe they were they were made to feel unworthy, unlovable, undeserving.
- But big picture, every time you tell your sad, pathetic story, all you do is you reinforce the fact that you're sad, you're pathetic, you're undeserving.
- I'm a piece of shit, I'm not worthy, I'm undeserving, I'm a bad parent, I'm a bad partner, I'm a bad friend.
Examples
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I'm one of the undeserving poor, that's what I am.
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Pakistan has proved that it is undeserving of this status and its benefits.
Blog text (26) -
But the Lord knew how undeserving she was.
Fiction book (2001) -
I think in many ways I feel highly undeserving of the things I've gotten.
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We are all people worthy of love and undeserving of judgment from strangers.
Blog text (28) -
He insisted that he was undeserving of such an exalted position.
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Gordon examines the more general construction of single mothers as an undeserving group worthy of pity but little else.
Academic text (1999) -
Quadagno and Gordon examine how welfare recipients are socially constructed as "undeserving" groups.
Academic text (1999) -
For those who deal in straightforward heroes and villains—the deserving and undeserving—there is no dilemma here.
Academic text (2006) -
He thought he was undeserving of their kindness after what he had done.
Synonyms
31
4.5
Does not deserve respect or help
Antonyms
How Deserving
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Undeserving is made of the prefix un- meaning 'not' and deserve, which is like 'earn' or 'be worthy of' and is like the word serve or service. So undeserving means not 'having earned' help, reward, or sympathy.