How to Use undeserving in a Sentence

undeserving

adjective
  • This is the complaint of a film critic toward an undeserving movie.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
  • After his tenth miss of the season, the kicker has become undeserving of the coach's trust.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Others insisted that many of their colleagues at the plant were undeserving or lazy.
    — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • John Wall, an undeserving selection, would have been left home.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The calamity couldn’t have happened to a more undeserving member of his moneyed class.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • There are no nominees undeserving of praise.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Stiglitz says a few simple rules can separate the deserving from the undeserving.
    — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The pandemic could lead governments to prolong the life of many undeserving firms.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • And in no way is Baldelli blameless, or even wholly undeserving of being dismissed.
    — Aaron Gleeman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Multitudes in our cities have been lacking food and shelter, but they have been discounted as somehow undeserving.
    — Popular Science, 28 Apr. 2020
  • An undeserving Chi Chi, lands in the bottom with Thorgy and Kennedy.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The main charge is not that Anne Hathaway is untalented or undeserving of celebrity.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 24 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And obviously dwelling in that undeserving place is not beneficial for anyone.
    — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2019
  • These are all perfectly admirable values, and Sessions’s targets are not undeserving.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The remedy of impeachment was given to us by our constitution to ease the nation of undeserving officials.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 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
  • Now a Guggenheim fellow, Machado was once conditioned to accept that zaftig women are undeserving of worship.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Gorgeous, smart and talented Sylvie views herself as ugly, unlovable and undeserving of happiness.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
  • Black people repeatedly demonstration an otherworldly beauty in the granting of grace to the undeserving.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Unless Freeze goes 4-0 in November and wins the Iron Bowl, his résumé would be wholly undeserving of a fourth season.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The comments also play upon centuries of treating black women as undeserving of their accomplishments and their bodies as strange and intimidating.
    — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 12 Sep. 2017

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