Unworthy

Examples

• A very unworthy suspicion, remarked Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• How unworthy he was of her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The other said: Ah, that wonderful face is so humble, so pleading--it says as plainly as words could say it: 'I fear; I tremble; I am unworthy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And it may lessen his guilt if I say that it was done in self-defence, and that John Straker was a man who was entirely unworthy of your confidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is so unworthy of you, this setting on of such a shameful scout. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Something even more deplorably unworthy of him than what he had done already? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• No, he is not so unworthy as you believe him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Then it is some person unworthy of her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nevertheless, I so loved that unworthy girl that my life was made stormy by my fondness for her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We took an unworthy satisfaction in seeing them fall out, now and then, because it showed that they were only poor human people like us, after all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What an unworthy attachment! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• That is your revenge, she said slowly; then added, Would it be a bad match, unworthy of the late Charles Cave Keeldar's representative? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The amatory exploits of Peirithous and Theseus are equally unworthy. Plato. The Republic.
• I consider myself not unworthy to be the associate of the best of them--of gentlemen, I mean--though that is saying a great deal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was a relief to my mind to believe him heartless and unworthy of my affection. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This contention is unworthy of both of us; and I confess that I am weary of replying to charges at once unfounded and unkind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But this was an unworthy feeling. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• They rouse my indignation, my dear, against the unworthy persons, and give me a combative desire to stand between Mr Boffin and all such persons. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But it is unworthy of me to argue and complain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It were unworthy to triumph over me--It is a poor deed to crush a worm. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Suppose you discovered that woman to be utterly unworthy of you? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her poor mother now did not look so very unworthy of being Lady Bertram's sister as she was but too apt to look. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am but a woman; but I should be unworthy of myself and of my papa, if I were guilty of such absurd weakness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Harriet Smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly, exclusively, passionately loved by Mr. Knightley. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He had so little of it to spend: and from delicacy he was afraid to say more on the subject of what he considered a trifle wholly unworthy of me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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