Dictionary Entry

unworthy

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ʌnˈwɝði/Used In Literature ↓

An inadequate person.

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. unworthymotives unworthy

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Poetry examples for “unworthy”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And is all this, my friend, but a weak and ignoble refining,
Wholly unworthy the head or the heart of Your Own Correspondent?

And unadmitted to the fellowship
Which I, unworthy, most unworthy, share?
What can I do—how can I help it then?

She holds, and views her old locks in her lap;
Ay me! rare gifts unworthy such a hap!
Cheer up thyself, thy loss thou may'st repair,

To count it, with the rest that sing,
Unworthy of a serious song;
And love is my reward; for now,

(Deeming itself at home the while,)
The unworthy earth! To see her smile
Amid this waste of pain and sin,

and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

plause). Love of country and devotion to human
service should purge our hearts of all unworthy
or misleading motives. Let us fervently pray for

The care and weakness that I know--refuse
To admit I am unworthy of the wage
Paid to a man who gives up eyes and breath

But the skilless tongue that soweth
Words unworthy of her graces.
Tongue, that hath me so betrayed,

I have despaired of thee ‘and am unworthy,