unworthily
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Those are the kinds of radical ideas that need to be pursued and then perfected to create a better system and eliminate some of the money being made unworthily off these players.
From Washington Post
This managerial side of the building would not unworthily have formed a portion of a public department, such as the Treasury or India Office: it was all spacious, silent, grand.
From Project Gutenberg
To receive it unworthily is to receive it— Without repentance, without faith, without seriousness, without love: 1 Cor. xi.
From Project Gutenberg
No higher eulogium can be passed on Alexander von Humboldt than that, in attempting, and not unworthily attempting, to portray the universe, he succeeded still more perfectly in portraying his own comprehensive intelligence.
From Project Gutenberg
Dwelling in holy innocence and deep humility among men, he saw himself mirrored in the eternal world, and the eternal world not all unworthily reflected back in him.
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