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单词 undeserving
释义
undeserving
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.dɪˈzɜː.vɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.dɪˈzɝː.vɪŋ/
not havingearnedtherightto have something; notdeservingsomething:
不配受到的，不该得到的
They have beenshownto begroupsundeservingofanyrespectwhatsoever.他们已经被证明是不值得任何尊重的群体。
Many of themfeltthat thewelfarestatebenefitedtheundeserving more than theneedy.他们中的许多人认为，福利国家让不值得的人比真正有需要的人得到了更多好处。
More examples
  • It was,overall, adisappointingmeal, and undeserving of the highratingothershad given.
  • Heinsiststheteamwill be undeservingchampionsif theyclinchthetitleonSunday.
  • Judges andjuriesare oftensubjecttoill-informedcriticismfor makingundulygenerousawardsto undeservingplaintiffs.
  • As Prime Minister, hepickedafightwith the undeservingrichonbehalfof thedeservingpoor.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deserving and deserved
  • birthright
  • come
  • comeuppance
  • deserts
  • deserve
  • deserved
  • deserving
  • getyourjust desertsidiom
  • had it coming (toyou)idiom
  • hard-earned
  • he/shedeserves whatever/everythinghe/shegetsidiom
  • just
  • serve
  • servesomeonerightidiom
  • undeserved
  • undeservedly
  • undeservingly
  • unmerited
  • well earned
  • worthy
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Idiom

the undeserving poor
(Definition ofundeservingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofundeserving

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First, it reflected a tendency to view evacuees as socially unproductive andundeservingmembers of the polity.
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If discrete endogenous and exogenous depression subtypes are confirmed, it does not imply that environmentally induced or influenced depressions are unimportant orundeservingof treatment.
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The study also finds some housing association staff poorly trained in domestic violence and in operating policies to distinguish the deserving from theundeserving.
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In the second half of the book, the focus moves from the ' deserving ' to the 'undeserving' poor and to their betters.
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Claiming the program threw money at theundeservingpoor, conservatives played on the fact that the program assisted only non-working families.
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Finally, the ethos of the recipient population eliminated the stigma of theundeserving, dependent poor.
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Moreover, with benefits founded on the principle of status maintenance, isolating deserving recipients fromundeservingones does not naturally divide along programmatic lines.
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Whereas the traditional distinction between deserving andundeservingrelies on notions of industry and thrift, the current measures of social worth are open-ended and elusive.
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This was in contrast to the view on the 'undeserving' poor, who were to be placed in workhouses under the harsher new rules of the poor relief system.
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Stoker's working-class characters are, of course, stock comic representations of theundeservingpoor, but they are no less ideologically situated for being so.
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Dispossessed groups thus confronted a rhetoric of benevolence that marginalized them, while benefactors' moral character could become soured by fears of being tricked by shammers or theundeserving.
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At the same time there were comments that pension allocations reflected perceptions of elders as 'undeserving' and unquestionably able to adjust to a low standard of living.
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Our heroine is a sort of innocent onlooker and her vision constitutes an effective criticism of a distorted system that can give anundeservingfather absolute power over his children.
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Ultimately, participants supported the view that the government should bear no responsibility forundeservingcitizens, but believed deserving citizens should receive government-sponsored financial, social and medical supports in later life.
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Precisely because industrial accidents received broad news coverage that tended to portray the victims as hardworking individuals, there was less suggestion that workers' compensation payments would go to theundeserving.
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