unmeritingly
/ˌʌnˈmɛɹɪtɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "It was no loss to society that Buckingham failed and fell. He was not the man to regenerate the nobility of England, or to plant moral principles on its throne. Yet, altho he perished, neither lamented nor unmeritingly, it was he that wove the plans and made the cords, which pulled down Richard from his state."
- "I must thank you again and again for the kind wishes expressed, and feel only too happy to know that my poor verses have, perhaps unmeritingly, found approbation in your eyes, an approbation of which they well may feel proud."
- "I have two other reasons for quoting at some length from the poem, besides that it is little known, namely, that it will be interesting to learn as much as we can of the man who (unmeritingly) had so mighty an influence on Shakespeare’s mind; and because I shall have hereafter to consider somewhat curiously, the fact of the poet’s having, the friendship broken, formed this conception of ideal villainy in Pembroke."
Etymology
From unmeriting + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more unmeritingly (comparative)
most unmeritingly (superlative)