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The phrase "feel undeserving" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase when someone is struggling to accept compliments or recognition, perhaps because they feel as though they don't deserve them. For example, "Although she'd worked hard to earn her promotion, she couldn't shake the feeling that she was undeserving of it."
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I suppose I still feel undeserving of it".
And if you feel undeserving you're hardly going to be forthcoming about what you're entitled to.
You feel undeserving of the privilege of being a writer, in the company of all the writers whose stringent examples you set out, long ago, to emulate.
And in a February 2013 piece for Jezebel, Karyn Polewaczyk suggested that women over-apologize because they feel "undeserving".
I am on this massage table getting my asshole fingered because the world has made me feel undeserving of a finger in my asshole in the first place.
Just don't be surprised when they feel undeserving of these accolades because most great teachers do the job for the love of it.
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It's not that he feels undeserving; he believes he is owed that much or more.
When asked about it, he said, Private Chen told him he felt undeserving of a normal bunk.
Even after he got clean, even decades after his late-adolescent suicide attempt, even after his slow and heroic construction of a life for himself, he felt undeserving.
I felt undeserving in her presence.
He explained that Darren feels Nancy is good for him but Darren almost feels undeserving of her.
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