undeservedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an undeserved manner.
Example Sentences
- "In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh."
Etymology
From undeserved + -ly or un- + deservedly.
Inflected Forms
more undeservedly (comparative)
most undeservedly (superlative)