How to Use undeserving in a Sentence

undeserving

adjective

• After his tenth miss of the season, the kicker has become undeserving of the coach's trust.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2019
• An undeserving Chi Chi, lands in the bottom with Thorgy and Kennedy.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
• Or was last season a fluke, as evidenced by Randle’s dud in the playoffs, and the Knicks just gave the money bag to the undeserving?
  — Stefan Bondy, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Neither of those two deserves to be sent to the minors, but that happens often to the undeserving.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 1 July 2018
• This is the complaint of a film critic toward an undeserving movie.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
• The calamity couldn’t have happened to a more undeserving member of his moneyed class.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• And Sunmi may or may not be seizing on all of them in this self-affirmation kiss-off to an undeserving lover.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2017
• Others insisted that many of their colleagues at the plant were undeserving or lazy.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• The pandemic could lead governments to prolong the life of many undeserving firms.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
• Stiglitz says a few simple rules can separate the deserving from the undeserving.
  — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• John Wall, an undeserving selection, would have been left home.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• The main charge is not that Anne Hathaway is untalented or undeserving of celebrity.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 24 May 2022
• Bush had already decided the week before that Libby was undeserving and told Cheney so, only to see the question raised again.
  — Time, 13 Apr. 2018
• Not making it on the first ballot isn’t a sign a player is undeserving but a testament to the backlog of tremendous players who, for one reason or another, have had to bide their time.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• The more citizens believe that a small group of undeserving wealthy people are denying them nice things, the uglier our politics will become.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 13 Nov. 2019
• However, mixed in with all the good extensions are a handful of thoroughly undeserving contracts for players who have offered next to nothing on the pitch.
  — SI.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Multitudes in our cities have been lacking food and shelter, but they have been discounted as somehow undeserving.
  — Popular Science, 28 Apr. 2020
• Terrible things happen all the time, to the deserving and the undeserving; people are never short of excuses for inaction.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Other schemes try harder to sift out undeserving cases.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• The state’s press corps was expecting typical first lady chitchat, devoid of hard news, undeserving of major headlines.
  — Felice Belman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Work for welfare is now an old idea, rooted in the conviction that people become poor due to some personal failing, and are thus undeserving of government aid.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2018
• This distinction between the protest and the encampment is really a distinction between the customer and the New Yorker, between the deserving and the undeserving—the moral and the immoral—user of public space.
  — Apoorva Tadepalli, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
• The truth is that the narrative of poverty or anti-poverty programs has become racialized and distorted to the point where the poor—especially the black poor—are seen as shameful, sinful, lazy and undeserving.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 4 Apr. 2018
• Even though the Boers were often portrayed as crude people undeserving of sympathy, the treatment of European descendants in this fashion was shocking to the British public.
  — Andrea Pitzer, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
• After a church corruption scandal, her belief that church was simply not for her transformed into sadness for those who put their faith in undeserving leaders.
  — Megan Marz, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• Now a Guggenheim fellow, Machado was once conditioned to accept that zaftig women are undeserving of worship.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• Experts say one of the most harmful aspects of the public's scorn is the underlying assumption that character flaws make Heard undeserving of empathy.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
• The remedy of impeachment was given to us by our constitution to ease the nation of undeserving officials.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• By the mid-’70s — just as Taylor was becoming Exhibit A of the undeserving poor — more women of color were being granted access to the assistance benefits long denied to them.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
• But having been witness to much of the recent history of Emmy awards and nominations, the current batch, announced this week, does inspire a few observations — and not the usual ones about who got snubbed and who was undeserving.
  — Bill Carter, CNN, 19 July 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024