How To Use Unmerited In A Sentence

  • Engrossed by the pride of self-defence, and the indignancy of unmerited unkindness, the disturbed mind of Camilla had not yet formed one separate reflexion, nor even admitted a distinct idea of Edgar himself, disengaged from the accusation in which he stood involved. Camilla
  • There is a genuine global appetite for the unlucky defeat, for the utterly unmerited victory; in short, for cruelty. Times, Sunday Times
  • A man should exercise an almost boundless toleration and placability, because if he is capricious enough to refuse to forgive a single individual for the meanness or evil that lies at his door, it is doing the rest of the world a quite unmerited honour. On Human Nature
  • He believed the tribunal's investigation into the awarding of the licence was wholly unnecessary and unmerited.
  • What was asked of the Christian was simply faith, itself an unmerited gift from God, and at the root of that faith was the Bible - which, like Jesus' sacrifice, was also sufficient and complete.
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  • Though all religions recommend values such as generosity, selflessness and charity, increasingly people resort to religion only to secure limitless and unmerited advantages in this world and the next.
  • Her "immaculate conception" in the womb of her own mother—i.e. her miraculous preservation from original sin—made her, in a unique way, what we all become at the moment of our baptism: a vessel filled with God's unmerited grace, which in the primary sense is nothing other than his divinizing love. Mary and EENS
  • But the vituperation and demands for redress are unmerited. Times, Sunday Times
  • The notion that Didier Drogba's dismissal was both unmerited and instrumental in the result of the game will surely be discounted by Mourinho as he attempts to find the measure of cool Frankie Rijkaard and his side for the second leg.
  • Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
  • But that delusive passion has subsided, and among the unmerited mercies for which I have to be thankful is that, in my frantic pursuit of Clara Day, I was not cursed with success! The Hidden Hand
  • However, those concerns were unmerited then and will be again when the ease with which stunning events appear arouse doubts. Times, Sunday Times
  • But she was married to the first princelet who happened to catch the eye of Empress Frederick, namely Prince Bernhardt of Saxe-Meiningen ” aye, and she was hustled into matrimony in such a hurry, too, as to give a sort of foundation for some shameful and base slanders, cruelly unmerited, but which one hears even Germans who profess loyalty to the crown repeating to this day. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
  • This isn't to say that such hesitancy is entirely unmerited; just as there are Christians who seem to have the sole mission of converting others to their religion, there are many atheists who only engage with people of faith in hopes of convincing them to abandon their tenants. Chris Stedman: Interfaith Dialogue Must Include Atheists
  • Would not such a disjunction between achievement and status have made the notion of grace as an unmerited gift more attractive than can be the case among wage-earners today?
  • Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence.
  • The 'clawback' measures allow banks to recoup bonuses that turn out to have been unmerited. Times, Sunday Times
  • received an unmerited honorary degree
  • The accusation that Rachel "gadded" as much as other girls of her age was obviously an unmerited one. The Arbiter A Novel
  • I'd end up giving another high score that might be unmerited. Times, Sunday Times
  • The penalty of unmerited food had produced an autotoxic anaemia, and she was pale and weepy, easily fatigued, sleeping poorly, with the boggy thyroid and overactive tendon reflexes so common in subacidosis. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
  • unmerited treatment of a potentially fine subject
  • In the subtle interflow of good and evil; in the unmerited sufferings of innocence; in the disproportion of penalties to desert; in the seeming blindness with which justice, in attempting to assert itself, overwhelms innocent and guilty in a common ruin, -- Shakespeare is true to real experience. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
  • Their stories of disproportionate, unmerited suffering demand that when sufferers cannot feel the companionship of God, we try to assure them of it.
  • The few boos - a traditional Pesaro bagatelle, methinks - that met the curtain-call were, however, unmerited.
  • Or was she penitently striving to make amends for the unmerited harshness she had dealt him? CHAPTER 10
  • Nothing but contempt is due to those people who ask us to submit to unmerited oppression.
  • Build self-esteem. This doesn't mean unmerited praise, but it does mean expressing support for a job well done.
  • Don't assume every complaint is petty or unmerited. Times, Sunday Times
  • In contrast to his messy private life, his military career was one of unmerited success. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unmerited as this seems, it will work wonders. Times, Sunday Times
  • Parties are able to obtain relief when take place unmerited clarify and can raise objection and appeal, also possess the power of action for damages.

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