unmerited

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Unmerited goods and honors are only material advantages; reward is essentially moral, and its value is independent of its form.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

Unmerited good fortune had made them insolent, and they contested the right of the Emperor to become a party to any treaty, as long as he remained under the ecclesiastical ban.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

The veteran, battle-scarred, who fills A nation's honored place, Feels keener than his saber's point, Unmerited disgrace.

From Debris Selections from Poems by Wagner, Madge Morris

Unmerited success is to foolish minds a fountain-head of perversity, so that it is often harder for men to keep the good they have, than it was to obtain it.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

Unmerited, un-mer′i-ted, adj. not merited, undeserved: obtained without service.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various