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undeserving

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1. undeserving - Adjective

2. undeserving - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not deserving

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The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs. Cyprian

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. Dorothy Day

Although men constitute the vast majority of prisoners in the world, important aspects of the operation of state punishment are missed if it is assumed that women are marginal and thus undeserving of attention. Angela Davis

It is the duty of man to raise up man. One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. José Martí

If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and an undeserving minority, then workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves. Barack Obama

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches. Bias of Priene

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