Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not deserving; not having merit.
- Not meriting: with of: as, a man undeserving of happiness or of punishment.
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- adjective Considered
unworthy ofreward .
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- adjective not deserving
Etymologies
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Examples
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Funny - the word "undeserving" wasn't mentioned when both parties rescued Wall Street's megabanks.
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Funny - the word "undeserving" wasn't mentioned when both parties rescued Wall Street's megabanks.
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Yasin has also written about being overlooked twice and what he calls undeserving people being rewarded instead.
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Would we consider some -- whom we may have written off in the past as "undeserving" -- worthy of our collective empathy?
Phillip Martin: Are You Worthy? It's Time to Question Meritocracy 2009
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TAX AND SPENDPlay Now, Pay LaterFOR MOST OF THE PAST TWO DECADES, American politics have been driven to the fight by a crude but powerful assumption: that those "tax and spend" Democrats have been taking away the taxpayers 'hard-earned money and giving it to "them" - the so-called undeserving poor.
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It goes beyond the idea of an 'undeserving rich'...certain segments of the so-called undeserving rich are the actual cause of the crisis wee are in...
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The GOP has used the idea of "undeserving" people getting something from the hard work of others from President Reagan's time if not before.
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These wait on you, to thank you for the honour you have done a person, equally unknown as undeserving, in your valuable present, which I did not receive till several weeks after it was sent: and since I received it, my eyes have been so bad, and my hand so unstable, that I have been forced to defer my duty, as desirous to thank you with my own hand.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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They claim that struggling homeowners are "undeserving" of help, even if the other party in their transaction has broken the law or violated a contract.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Foreclosures and Guilt: The "Home Loan Moral Hazard Scorecard" RJ 2010
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They claim that struggling homeowners are "undeserving" of help, even if the other party in their transaction has broken the law or violated a contract.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Foreclosures and Guilt: The "Home Loan Moral Hazard Scorecard" RJ 2010
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July 3, 2009