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US
/ˈmɛɹɪtɫəs/
]
[ UK /mˈɛɹɪtləs/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛɹɪtləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
without merit; of little or no value or use
a sorry excuse
the car was a no-good piece of junk
a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
a sorry horse
How To Use meritless In A Sentence
- IANAL, but I have once or twice been inviolved in litigation, and have run into this sort of wearing down of the plaintiff despite the defense being meritless. The Volokh Conspiracy » Your Lawyer’s Wrong:
- The ‘one petition’ rule cuts off meritless and meritorious claims alike, based merely on the sequence of filings.
- The claims of biopiracy were also meritless, resting on a stupid claim that bioprospecting was illegitimate unless all indigenous communities in a region approve it.
- A Flynt apologist could probably wiggle away from the sexism of the word cunt; harder to excuse was Flynt's preposterous suggestion that Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment was meritless, an empty gesture of political correctness. Slate Articles
- The claims of biopiracy were also meritless, resting on a stupid claim that bioprospecting was illegitimate unless all indigenous communities in a region approve it.
