UNDESERVED in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for UNDESERVED, such as:

1. My way was always the undeserving way.
2. I were undeserving his grace did I not peril it for his good.
3. She felt that the fervent praise was excessive and somewhat undeserved.
4. It has been long enough to inflict on me a great and undeserved misfortune.
5. The award was undeserved, which is not the same as saying it went to an undeserving person.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNDESERVED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
undeserved
 a.  not deserved or earned; not merited; unjustifiable or unfair
Classic Sentence:
1  Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She forgave him; but from that time more than ever he considered himself unworthy of her, morally bowed down lower than ever before her, and prized more highly than ever his undeserved happiness.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 16
4  To remain under such undeserved reproach was wretched, but to make her suffer by justifying himself was worse still.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 14
5  It has been long enough to inflict on me a great and undeserved misfortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
6  I'm undeserving; and I mean to go on being undeserving.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
7  But I, as one of the undeserving poor, have nothing between me and the pauper's uniform but this here blasted three thousand a year that shoves me into the middle class.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  My way was always the undeserving way.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
9  That shows that the Eastern nations have too much good sense to waste their time and attention on objects undeserving of either.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
10  "Wickham is not so undeserving, then, as we thought him," said her sister.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
11  I should be undeserving of the confidence you have honoured me with, if I felt no desire for its continuance, or no farther curiosity on its subject.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
12  I were undeserving his grace did I not peril it for his good.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  Coming as the control did from without, perfect men and methods would have bettered all things; and even with imperfect agents and questionable methods, the work accomplished was not undeserving of commendation.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  She felt that the fervent praise was excessive and somewhat undeserved.
2  The award was undeserved, which is not the same as saying it went to an undeserving person.
3  Much of the responsibility for the disaster was shifted onto John, and this was quite undeserved.