Ibrahim Kalin, and advisor to Erdogan, spoke of a “meritorious isolation” of the country.
The Queen was so impressed that she had a watch inscribed to Miss Eagle for ‘meritorious and extraordinary clairvoyance.’
“meritorious promotions are now meritorious if you can believe it,” he said.
The reforms that Howard advocates, meritorious as they are, require political support to be enacted.
The object so meritorious, who can doubt the reality of his professions?
I think it is requisite, and as meritorious, in the one as in the other.
In fact, she is a perfect employment bureau for meritorious youth.
It was an able committee from which a meritorious work might reasonably be expected.
The completion of this meritorious work was unfortunately prevented by the war.
This meritorious and curious production is therefore now scarce.
early 15c., "deserving of divine grace," from Latin meritorius "that for which money is paid, that by which money is earned," from meritus, past participle of merere "to earn" (see merit (n.)). Related: Meritoriously; meritoriousness.
