Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not meriting; not meritorious or deserving.
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- adjective Not
meriting ;undeserving .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Amid the flattery and encomia heaped upon the reception of my unmeriting
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854 2008
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Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as any in Rome.
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Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistratesalias foolsas any in Rome.
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'Creator,' the childlike heart might cry, 'give me all the wages, all the reward thy perfect father-heart can give thy unmeriting child.
Hope of the Gospel George MacDonald 1864
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To meet this end, the writer suggests that the Crown, as advised thereon, should have a discretionary power of rewarding the well-doer and refusing the claim of the unmeriting, which would distinctly separate the case of the worthy servant of the Sovereign from that of him who only employed his office to enrich himself.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839
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Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as any in Rome.
Coriolanus 1607
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