Usually means: Not worthy of receiving something.
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  1. undeserving: Merriam-Webster
  2. undeserving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. undeserving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. undeserving: Vocabulary.com
  5. Undeserving, undeserving: Wordnik
  6. undeserving: Wiktionary
  7. undeserving: Dictionary.com
  8. undeserving: Rhymezone
  9. undeserving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. undeserving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. undeserving: FreeDictionary.org
  12. undeserving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. undeserving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Considered unworthy of reward.

Similar:
unworthy, unworthy of, unmeritable, nondeserving, deserveless, unmeriting, unrewarded, immeritorious, unrewardable, unworth, more...

Opposite:
deserving, worthy, entitled

Types:
unworthy, unfit, unsuitable, inadequate, disqualified, more...

Phrases:
undeserving of, undeserving poor, feeling undeserving, more...

Adjectives:
least, most, poor, called, such, own, self, scarlet



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Similar:
unworthy, unworthy of, unmeritable, nondeserving, deserveless, unmeriting, unrewarded, immeritorious, unrewardable, unworth, more...

Opposite:
deserving, worthy, entitled

Types:
unworthy, unfit, unsuitable, inadequate, disqualified, more...

Phrases:
undeserving of, undeserving poor, feeling undeserving, more...

Adjectives:
least, most, poor, called, such, own, self, scarlet



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