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Vinony

undeserved

adjective

  1. not earned or deserved : not justified or merited
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English deserved English undeserved From un- + deserved.

  1. Not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.

    “Second best moves are good enough against most chessplayers. Occasionally, they even earn an undeserved reward. But not against Alekhine.”

    “And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.”