unworth

1. uncountableUnworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.

   Feeling a sense of unworth, we kill ourselves in a number of ways.

   1989, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, The art of being human: the humanities as a technique for living

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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!

   1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets

   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.

   1917, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Copper Streak Trail

comparative more unworth · superlative most unworth

1. obsoleteunworthy

   Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment

   1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC

1. not comparablerareNot 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.

   1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him

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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.

   1916, John Lang, Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches