unmerited
adjective
un·mer·it·ed
ˌən-ˈmer-ə-təd 
-ˈme-rə-
: not adequately earned or deserved : not merited
an unmerited award
unmerited insults
unmerited criticism/praise
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But such intercommunal attacks, however vicious and unmerited, are not the cause of the M23 rebellion but a response to it: many Congolese of other ethnicities automatically assume local Tutsis support the rebel group and have therefore lashed out against them.
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Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
This does not excuse the subsequent Republican descent into conspiracy-theory madness and all that has followed from that, but the kernel of mistrust at the center of that paranoiac outlook is not entirely unmerited.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 26 May 2021
Beyond that, President Biden’s attacks on the court are unmerited and dangerous.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering.
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 26 Apr. 2021
The good nap alights upon you like the grace of God: weightless, unmerited, spirit-altering.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2020
JoJo is reminiscent of the donkey-saint in Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar, a symbol of innocence, of unmerited suffering.
—Casey Gerald, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2020
The billboard ban legislation would slap yet another unfair — and unmerited — burden upon this new industry.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
The hackneyed script has the effect of lending an unmerited nobility to the politicians and bureaucrats onscreen.
—David Klion, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
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Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
This does not excuse the subsequent Republican descent into conspiracy-theory madness and all that has followed from that, but the kernel of mistrust at the center of that paranoiac outlook is not entirely unmerited.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 26 May 2021
Beyond that, President Biden’s attacks on the court are unmerited and dangerous.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering.
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 26 Apr. 2021
The good nap alights upon you like the grace of God: weightless, unmerited, spirit-altering.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2020
JoJo is reminiscent of the donkey-saint in Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar, a symbol of innocence, of unmerited suffering.
—Casey Gerald, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2020
The billboard ban legislation would slap yet another unfair — and unmerited — burden upon this new industry.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
The hackneyed script has the effect of lending an unmerited nobility to the politicians and bureaucrats onscreen.
—David Klion, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
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