immeritorious
Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
Adjective
- Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
- Their acceptance indeed, as a formula, may show a willing and tractable spirit, and they may to that extent have a value : but such acceptance differs of course from belief in being admittedly a voluntary act, and not a...
- As long as the defence is credible and can be reasonably substantiated so that the counterclaim is not evidently immeritorious, the attacked party has little to lose, and may gain time. - 2004: Damien Géradin,...
Origin
im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius
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“†immeriˈtorious a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary second edition (1989)