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Unworthily

Unworthy \Un*wor"thy\, a. Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor"thi*ness, n.

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unworthily

adv. In an unworthy manner.

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unworthily

adv. in an unworthy manner

Usage examples of "unworthily".

But the believer who receives the sacrament with consciousness of sin, by receiving it unworthily despises the sacrament, not in itself, but in its use.

The singers drew inspiration from the audience, and the two great sextettes were rendered not unworthily.

If any one had taxed him with the vice, he would have indignantly repelled the accusation, and conceived himself unworthily aspersed.

Until this time he had felt unworthily used, taken in treachery and unworthily on her part: it was the first time he had to feel that he had fallen short in his obligation, and that made him doubly debted, disgracing both himself and his liyo.

With these magnificent portraits unworthily confined in a band-box during his seclusion among the market-gardens, he decorates his apartment, and as the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of prospect, and is backed up by every variety of flower-pot and balustrade, the result is very imposing.