undeserving in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Those individuals classed as undeserving were those whose poverty was deemed to be caused by indolence and alcoholism.
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A 1668 edict established commissions distinguishing between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor.
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And whilst the majority of deserving allottees received smaller plots, the undeserving often received large ones.
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They are, however, undeserving of their reputation for being overly vicious predators.
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A counsel is employed to cross-examine the nominated couples and attempt to show they are undeserving of the award.
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They engage in the opposite of plagiarism, giving credit to those undeserving by not using precise words but rather loose interpretations and paraphrasing.
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Most subsequent legislation built on its principles of provision for the local deserving poor and punishment of mobile and undeserving sturdie beggars.
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She has some setbacks at work when the credit for all her ideas and hardwork goes to undeserving people.
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A distinction between the undeserving poor and the deserving poor became apparent.
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He sees himself as a member of the undeserving poor, and means to go on being undeserving.
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