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Immeritorious

//ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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 mere immeritorious and reluctant yielding to the brute weight of evidence."

Etymology

im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius

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