unworthily
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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He also said they acted "unprofessionally and unworthily".
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Remodeled by the modern mind, This old hangover, shaped and shined, Is wined and dined with great formality, And most unworthily defined As Rugged Individuality.
From Time Magazine Archive
To receive it unworthily is to receive it— Without repentance, without faith, without seriousness, without love: 1 Cor. xi.
From Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography by Hoare, Edward N.
What though I have expounded nothing new, And traced, I trow, unworthily the old?
From Vacation Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.
I got entangled in various ways through my ready sympathy and too eager heart; but I never crouched to society—never sought it unworthily.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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