The word 'undeserving' is correct and commonly used in written English to describe someone or something as not deserving something, such as praise, recognition, or punishment.
Example: The politician was denounced for accepting bribes and was deemed undeserving of the public's trust and support.
Tax and government now seems to work on this principle of the deserving and undeserving poor with councils checking claimant's booze and fag receipts before giving emergency help, as if we now need to establish a person is deserving before their suffering means something.
He made no distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor.
Melissa Nieves, a recipient in New York, says she compares costs at five different supermarkets, assiduously collects coupons, eats mainly cheap, starchy foods, and still runs out of money a week or ten days before the end of the month.It is also hard to argue that food-stamp recipients are undeserving.
Free markets shun seemingly worthy causes, whereas the frivolous or apparently undeserving are rewarded.
For the bookmakers in the enclosure, the going in recent times has been almost as strength-sapping.To unsuccessful punters ie, most of them bookmakers may be undeserving of sympathy.
Knowing that most Americans have long considered him an undeserving victim of Mr Starr's investigation, Mr Clinton spoke against a backdrop that was understated, even funereal, and without any of the flags and drapes that usually proclaim the authority of his office.
In England, it is a personal good that may be withdrawn if a pupil is undeserving.
Enormous though the cost of bailing out the banks has been, there is nothing inherently undeserving about finance; even in their flawed state, more liquid markets have brought huge benefits to the rest of the economy.
More than 1m people were resettled around the world; merchant ships were compensated for their rescue efforts; eventually deals were struck with Vietnam for the orderly departure of refugees and the repatriation of the undeserving.
Republican presidential candidates have been taking potshots at the Fed, principally over its quantitative easing, and it wasn't that long ago that congressmen of both parties were attacking swaps as a bailout of undeserving foreigners.
The punishment for putting their stamp of approval on collateralised-debt obligations, bond insurers and various undeserving dross is becoming clearer.
