Adjective
The word is derived from worthy
The scholar whose knowledge is made use of and benefited from, is worthier and more virtuous than seventy thousand worshippers and adorers. Muhammad al-Baqir
I will venture to claim that I have been an honest writer and a loyal Englishman. England has many worthier sons; but few who more dearly love her. Robert Blatchford
A flushed face, white hair and a twinkle in his eye; and this twinkling got him out of scrapes that would have sunk a worthier man without trace. James Bolivar Manson
Then think I thus: "Sith such repair, So long time war of valiant men, Was all to win a lady fair, Shall I not learn to suffer then? And think my life well spent to be, Serving a worthier wight than she?" Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. Martin Luther King Jr.
I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house. Charles Dickens