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unworth
adj 2noun 1
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4ADJ.
comparative, living, ordinary
VERB + UNWORTH
became, convicted, sense, worth
UNWORTH + NOUN
about--that, ourselves, peter
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!
As the lawyer unfolded his plan the partner-clerk, as a devotee of cunning, found himself convicted of comparative unworth; with every sentence he deported himself less like Pelman the partner, shrank more and more to Joey the devil clerk.
adj
1
unworthy
Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment
adj
1
Not worth; not deserving of.
This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter.
That would be something not unworth boasting about--that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath.
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Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!
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As the lawyer unfolded his plan the partner-clerk, as a devotee of cunning, found himself convicted of comparative unworth; with every sentence he deported himself less like Pelman the partner, shrank
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Feeling a sense of unworth, we kill ourselves in a number of ways.
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Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment
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This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter.
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That would be something not unworth boasting about--that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath.
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