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- adjective Not
meritorious ; withoutmerit .
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- adjective without merit
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Examples
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This time a hostile judge called their case "unmeritorious" and denied their claim.
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This time a hostile judge called their case "unmeritorious" and denied their claim.
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This time they faced a hostile judge who described their case as "unmeritorious" and denied their claim.
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Unless unmeritorious prisoner suits can be filtered out early on in proceedings, I think it is fair to stick with the old standard.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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At various times in their careers, lawyers see motions or other pleadings that, for one reason or another, strike them perhaps beyond unmeritorious.
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What I have seen is the opinion that the legislature is entitled to defund clinics if they determine that they are filing unmeritorious suits, and that the targets of those suits are entitled to notify their representatives.
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At various times in their careers, lawyers see motions or other pleadings that, for one reason or another, strike them perhaps beyond unmeritorious.
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What I have seen is the opinion that the legislature is entitled to defund clinics if they determine that they are filing unmeritorious suits, and that the targets of those suits are entitled to notify their representatives.
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The Berg case may be equally unmeritorious but I am not as well versed on it. —
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Obama’s Citizenship - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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What I have seen is the opinion that the legislature is entitled to defund clinics if they determine that they are filing unmeritorious suits, and that the targets of those suits are entitled to notify their representatives.
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