(a.) Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
(2) Jan Vertonghen: Tottenham can do something special under Pochettino Read more This is not to suggest Leicester are unworthy league winners.
(3) IPA Freedom to Publish Committee chair Bjørn Smith-Simonsen called the prosecution "undemocratic, anachronistic and unworthy of a modern and open society ... Sanci is being harassed for doing his publisher's job.
(4) A picture pops onto the screen, and you are immediately given the option to click yes or no, or even better you can swipe them to the left or right to get that heightened experience that you are whooshing unworthy candidates directly into the bin.
(5) When Harold Wilson oversaw the award of MBEs to the Beatles for services to exports, some previous recipients sent their awards back, complaining that the Beatles were unworthy of the honour.
(6) Nevertheless, to compare this face with some powerful depictions of despair is to see how hard it is to call a halt to the human story, to say that anything in life is unworthy of life.
(7) The divide over women's rights fundamentally comes down to the question of whether you think women are equally as human as men, or whether you think we're a sub-category of person, designed to serve men's needs and desires, and unworthy of protection from humanity's most awful impulses.
(8) After all, if my religious practices are so unworthy of preservation, why should I expect the respect and protection from violence that is the right of any other European citizen?
(9) It stems from fear, and from the fact that in the recent past in Britain, all women were discriminated against, very strongly, because all women were seen as potential mothers and treated as if this therefore made them unworthy of investment in their preparation for a future beyond the domestic sphere.
(10) It was precisely how Inter had played in that Champions League semi-final but there was always a sense at Madrid that it was somehow unworthy of the club.
(11) I still feel this would have been unnecessary, unfair and unworthy of the UK.
(12) If someone has the benefit, indeed privilege, of a good education, it seems necessarily to follow that he or she is somehow unworthy and, in any event, clearly knows nothing about "real life".
(13) But with humour so subjective, any attempt to codify it as good or bad, worthy or unworthy, victimless or vindictive - as the Ministry of Justice amendment to the Coroners and Justice bill in the Lords proposes - just makes an idiot out of you in the end.
(14) If the preppie males were significantly less supportive of equal rights for all regardless of gender, they may perceive females to be unworthy of equal rights and perhaps categorize them as belonging to a group available for exploitation, be it sexual, economic or otherwise.
(15) The majority of women experience a variety of symptoms at the time of the menopause, but these are frequently regarded as being unworthy of management by their doctors.
(16) By this time, however, everyone was vying with each other to have him play a character part in their films, and he took the chance to make some fairly easy money in a succession of sometimes unworthy roles.
(17) I hope I’ve made myself clear... thank you, let’s leave it there.” Partridge co-creator Armando Iannucci previously revealed that the BBC – the original home of the Coogan character, first on Radio 4 and then BBC2 – passed on Mid Morning Matters, deeming it unworthy of a primetime spot .
(18) An excellent boxer Tyson Fury may be; however his extremely callous and erroneous remarks about our community make him an unworthy candidate to be recognised among the UK’s excellent sporting personalities and ambassadors.” Courtney Robinson from Fight4Equality said: “In Tyson Fury’s neanderthal worldview, women are merely objects designed to entertain and serve men.
(19) Cyril Smith was knighted and the system must have known he was unworthy.
(20) Trump’s “constant stream of cruel comments” disturbed Collins throughout the primary and through the Republican convention, she wrote, “but it was his attacks directed at people who could not respond on an equal footing – either because they do not share his power or stature or because professional responsibility precluded them from engaging at such a level – that revealed Mr Trump as unworthy of being our president”.
Useless
Definition:
(a.) Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(2) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(3) It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence.
(4) It is concluded that the femoral stem should be as thick as possible and that the collar of the prosthesis is useless.
(5) The clorus water disinfecting conventional methods by many reasons are useless, even in urbanized cities.
(6) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
(7) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(8) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(9) Inappropriate, useless and potentially harmful surgical diagnostic procedures are also avoided.
(10) However, under normal working conditions, taking into account the period of time which inevitably elapses between the patient feeling pain in the kidney and his reaching the Emergency Department and the necessary examinations being carried out which enable the correct diagnosis to be made, the number of hours which have passed make attempts at conservative surgery completely useless.
(11) However one should not ask for the impossible of the treatment of male infertility since the most optimal seminal analysis result is useless in the presence of a monophysic menstrual cycle in the partner.
(12) The endoscopic retrograde cholangiography is of greatest practical significance for the differential diagnosis of the cholestatic icterus: non-obstructed bile ducts exclude an extrahepatic icterus and render a laparotomy useless.
(13) If you have a regulator behaving this uselessly, I suspect MPs will start saying this is not regulation," he said.
(14) The importance of a diagnosis before surgery by cytopunction and drill-biopsy has to be emphasized, to prevent an useless mastectomy.
(15) In conclusion, excepted for pituitary deficiency, basal plasma TSH (IRMA) levels are accurate and sufficient in the evaluation of the thyroid function and make the TRH-test useless.
(16) (4) The annual vaccination campaigns since 1970 against FMD were useless because most of the primary outbreaks of FMD since then can be traced to the production or the application of vaccines.
(17) A hepatic lesion regarded as useless for the ultimate diagnosis was present in 16 cases (14.5 per cent).
(18) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
(19) Clinical evaluation and laboratory tests are useless.
(20) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.