How to Use creditworthy in a Sentence

creditworthy

adjective
  • However, this may not mean those in this age group are more creditworthy.
    — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Bank chiefs today want to do more than make loans to creditworthy borrowers.
    — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 2 July 2019
  • Some small banks have viewed credit cards as a way to cross sell their customers and to bring in new creditworthy customers.
    — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The prime rate is, in theory, the rate lenders charge their most creditworthy customers.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • For starters, the buyers are creditworthy and there’s epic supply shortfall of new homes.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • That's the interest rate that banks charge their most creditworthy customers.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Banks offer customers who have proven to be creditworthy their best, or prime, interest rate.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 18 Mar. 2021
  • That could lead more creditworthy homeowners to seek home-equity loans to finance projects.
    — Christopher S. Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
  • And those differences may not make members of one group less creditworthy than members of another.
    — Kareem Saleh, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Small farmers who previously weren’t considered creditworthy would then be able to get loans against their land.
    — Payal Dhar, Wired, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Rewards programs, one of the biggest costs for large card issuers chasing creditworthy customers, are rare.
    — Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The least creditworthy companies will struggle to raise money needed to hire and expand.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022
  • Banks have spent much of the past 10 years chasing ultra-creditworthy borrowers.
    — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2018
  • But until there are creditworthy takers for fresh advances, deposits won’t revive.
    — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The goal of the program is not to bail out specific companies but to make sure creditworthy firms have access to capital.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 June 2020
  • Part of the bad loan problem, critics argue, stems from easy lending to cronies, who run businesses that are often less than creditworthy.
    — Quartz, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Including them could help those firms fill the void left by big commercial banks, which have cut back on mortgage lending to all but the most creditworthy customers.
    — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Without proper covenant protection, lenders will pass on even a creditworthy borrower's deal.
    — Rocky Gor, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Instead, many critics figured that less creditworthy borrowers were getting a break at the expense of those with higher scores.
    — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Many of these consumers are creditworthy and can be qualified through alternative data sources.
    — Sanjoy Malik, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • This is the interest rate banks charge their most creditworthy borrowers, like large corporations.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 16 June 2022
  • Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers.
    — Evan Zimmer, CNBC, 17 June 2026
  • Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers.
    — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers.
    — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers.
    — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers.
    — Adam Palasciano, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Late payments across all credit tiers — auto loans, credit cards, personal loans — are increasing, too, even among the most creditworthy.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Lenders want creditworthy customers.
    — Brock Blake, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Many targeted smaller finance companies that often catered to the least creditworthy borrowers with nowhere else to turn.
    — Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017

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