UNWORTHILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unworthily mean? 

• UNWORTHILY (adverb)
  The adverb UNWORTHILY has 1 sense:

1. in an unworthy manner

  Familiarity information: UNWORTHILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWORTHILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unworthy manner

Pertainym:

unworthy (lacking in value or merit)

 Context examples 

How unworthily occupied!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He answered me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compliment of saying that he was so well convinced of Lady Catherine's discernment as to be certain she could never bestow a favour unworthily.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The letter was written in an odd, upright hand and signed “Edward Hyde”: and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer’s benefactor, Dr. Jekyll, whom he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour under no alarm for his safety, as he had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She considered it all as nonsense, as mere trifling and gallantry, which meant only to deceive for the hour; she could not but feel that it was treating her improperly and unworthily, and in such a way as she had not deserved; but it was like himself, and entirely of a piece with what she had seen before; and she would not allow herself to shew half the displeasure she felt, because he had been conferring an obligation, which no want of delicacy on his part could make a trifle to her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)