immeritorious

Etymology
+ ; compare the 🇨🇬

Adjective

 * 1) Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
 * 2) * 2004: Damien Géradin, Modernisation and Enlargement: Two Major Challenges for EC Competition Law, page 137 (Intersentia ; ISBN 9789050954327, 9050954324)
 * As long as the defence is credible and can be reasonably substantiated so that the counterclaim is not evidently immeritorious, the attacked party has little to lose, and may gain time.
 * As long as the defence is credible and can be reasonably substantiated so that the counterclaim is not evidently immeritorious, the attacked party has little to lose, and may gain time.

Related terms

 * “ †immeriˈtorious, a. ” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)