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unmeritable

American  
[uhn-mer-i-tuh-buhl] / ʌnˈmɛr ɪ tə bəl /

adjective

  1. not worthy or deserving of merit.


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Etymology

Origin of unmeritable

First recorded in 1585–95; un- 1 + merit + -able

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This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit, The three-fold world divided, he should stand One of the three to share it?

From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

It should rather be treated as an aggravation of his very unmeritable conduct.

From Abraham Lincoln by Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron Charnwood

This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart

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