unmerited

Example Sentences

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The Masts claim in court filings that they legally adopted the child, and that the Afghan couple’s accusations that they kidnapped her are “outrageous” and “unmerited.”

From Seattle Times

“Scientific evidence for intelligence in donkeys could expose their historical unmerited cognitive derogatory status,” the report begins about the species — the male of which is called a jack and the female is a jenny.

From Washington Post

"Twenty years later, there is simply no reason - unmerited claims of 'national security' or otherwise - to keep this information secret," the group writes.

From BBC

"Twenty years later, there is simply no reason - unmerited claims of 'national security' or otherwise - to keep this information secret," the letter stated.

From Reuters

The more we encourage unwanted and unmerited interaction between police and Black Americans, largely in underprivileged communities, the more we flirt with increased injury and death visited on these communities.

From Washington Post