What is "undeserve"

Usage examples of "undeserve".

As for good fame, it is either deserved and then is due to the services done and to the merit of those appraising them, or it is undeserved, and then must be attributed to the injustice of those making the award.

I intrude myself into a noble family, contaminate its lustre, reflect indelible disgrace on the author of my undeserved elevation, and live despised and reproached, as the artful creature who had taken advantage of your generosity and compassion?

I have indeed met with so many great and undeserved blessings, that my heart bounds in gratitude to heaven for its goodness towards one who, a short time since, thought herself the most unhappy of her sex.

Only watch their bearing in the case of the family of a dead comrade, of hospital funds, of sudden misfortune or bereavement, of undeserved obloquy.

What had I done in my short life that such misery, such undeserved torments should be heaped upon me?

The people of the suburb of Wilmot, descended from English and Scottish settlers, had a largely undeserved reputation for stodginess and conservatism.

Or we may reason that the undeserved stroke can be no evil to the sufferer in view of the beneficent interweaving of the All or again, no doubt, that nothing is unjust that finds justification in a past history.

I had supposed it to be some commendation, some ceremony of undeserved recognition that Nitti had promoted for himself.

Atlas and King Cole a wholly undeserved and unnecessary measure of grain.

Duneen cried, turning toward Murillo to make his words an undeserved slap.

So when a woman offered herself, it was always for reasons: like, for instance, trying to insure her safety, protect her cunning, undeserving hide by enslaving him through his dependable, easily awakened male lust.

So far, then, as I am acquainted with the general character of the cases reported by the Homoeopathic physicians, they would for the most part be considered as wholly undeserving a place in any English, French, or American periodical of high standing, if, instead of favoring the doctrine they were intended to support, they were brought forward to prove the efficacy of any common remedy administered by any common practitioner.

As I recall these past seasons of our joint labors, I feel that they have been on the whole prosperous, and not undeserving of their prosperity.

What cruel fate to live and to see the undeserving gather the spoils from me.

Drizzt and the others in Icewind Dale-since ho had slapped Catti-brie across the face-were not those of a man undeserving of such a grim fate.