Example sentences for: unworthy

How can you use “unworthy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the Philological Society's dictionary, was not the poet's grandson; Elisabeth Murray's biography was only taken on by Oxford after Yale University Press had turned it into a bestseller and shamed OUP into publishing it (OUP having earlier rejected it as unworthy).

  • The framers of the Constitution, argues the Standard , intended impeachment as a way to remove an unworthy if popular leader.

  • Senior statesmen of Henry's own Lancastrian party judged him an unworthy successor to their previous standard-bearer, the legendary Henry V, identified in the popular mind with the romance of chivalry and the tragedy of an early death.

  • Dissenters say the movie retains Grisham's shallow moralizing and is unworthy of Coppola's talents.

  • As you may recall, I underlined the good faith of those who saw an analogy between the denial of the humanity of the fetus and the Nazi slogan "life unworthy of life."


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