not merited
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Eric Greitens, but agreed with an advisory counsel’s decision that suspension of her law license or disbarment were not merited.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
What the gaming shows you is the risks, gaps, places where you’ve made some rosy assumption that you go, oops, maybe that rosy assumption is not merited.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2020
Handing her a hospital order, the judge told Bogdan “your conduct towards Jolia was wholly due to your mental illness…Accordingly I have concluded that punishment is not merited in this case.”
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2020
At a time when body image issues are worse than ever, according to Orbach, dancing on black’s grave is probably not merited.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018
His dreams ended as he faced that ashen, foamy, dirty sea, which had not merited the risks and sacrifices of the adventure.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
