undeserved

comparative more undeserved · superlative most undeserved

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.

   1957 February, “Solitaire Chess”, in Chess Review

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   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.

   1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24

   Synonyms: ill-deserved, unearned · Antonyms: deserved