unmerited
Britishadjective
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Unmerited success is to foolish minds a fountain-head of perversity, so that it is often harder for men to keep the good they have, than it was to obtain it.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace
I thank you for your Unmerited Favors of yesterday; and hope to have the Happiness of Waiting on you to-morrow before Eight a-clock after Noon.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
Unmerited, un-mer′i-ted, adj. not merited, undeserved: obtained without service.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Unmerited goods and honors are only material advantages; reward is essentially moral, and its value is independent of its form.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
The veteran, battle-scarred, who fills A nation's honored place, Feels keener than his saber's point, Unmerited disgrace.
From Debris Selections from Poems by Wagner, Madge Morris
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