indign
Unworthy, undeserving.
Adjective
- Unworthy, undeserving.
- even th'Almightie selfe she did maligne, / Because to man so mercifull he was, / And unto all his creatures so benigne, / Sith she her selfe was of his grace indigne […]. - 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in...
- disgraceful
- unbecoming
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French indigne, from Latin indignus, from in- (“un-”) + dignus (“worthy, dignified”).