Petty
Unworthy
Unworthy adjective - Lacking in value or merit.
Petty and unworthy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Petty" instead an adjective "Unworthy".
Nearby Word: unworthily
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- At worst, the so-called aid... isn't, and comes from scum unworthy to be called soldiers, little better morally than the petty, violent bandits and secessionists in the Deep South.
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Yukiko gets these alot as she fights almost as much with her psi as her blades "Reason You Suck" Speech: Yukiko absolutely demolishes Hiro at the end of Endslinger, calling him out on the fact that he's only interested in petty revenge and declaring him unworthy of being known by his children.
Source: Literature / The Lotus War - In 20th Century Boys by the same author, second Friend is ready to annihilate mankind as "unworthy to live" because one of his childhood friend once committed a petty theft and let him take the blame.
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