What is "undeserving"

Usage examples of "undeserving".

In the early forties, while playing an engagement somewhere in the wild West, Junius Brutus Booth did a series of kindnesses to a particularly undeserving fellow, the name of him unknown to us.

Apart from that, the place is miles of mouldering terraces containing two classes of persons: Threepenny Opera crooks and the undeserving poor.

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.

Not to mention sufficient refreshments to fill two hundred thousand undeserving bellies!

Master Blifil then, though he had kept silence in the presence of Jones, yet, when he had better considered the matter, could by no means endure the thought of suffering his uncle to confer favours on the undeserving.

A more rational method of inquiry might not have been undeserving of the attention of the wisest princes, who could easily have resolved a question so important for the Roman government, and so interesting to succeeding ages.

She, who had lost her love, surely empathized with Danica, and yet, she knew that this woman was undeserving of any sympathy.

These are unconsciously motivated interactions with others in which we may goof up and/or get put-down, thus confirming our childhood beliefs that we are inferior and undeserving.

He thinks back to the time spent gathering the gossip of the environmental world: awards promoted by the undeserving for the deserving, who is taking over an agency or an interest group and withdrawals of grants.

The Guardians of the Corpse Ways, like jackals cleansing the tombs of undeserving carrion, are protectors of the liminal zone at the boundaries of the two worlds.

A lower example still of theopathic saintliness is that of Saint Gertrude, a Benedictine nun of the thirteenth century, whose 'Revelations,' a well-known mystical authority, consist mainly of proofs of Christ's partiality for her undeserving person.