Received an unmerited honorary degree.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

unmerited treatment of a potentially fine subject.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

My favorite from the Cato Unbound essay: As long as elites persist in unmerited deference to and flattery of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: November 2006 Archives] Reference

As long as elites persist in unmerited deference to and flattery of the majority, containing the dangers of voter irrationality will be very hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doubt the Vote, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

This is also what I call unmerited grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [senorcoconut Diary Entry] Reference

• flows from a love that come through the recognition that wonderful gifts are given to us "unmerited", leading to gratitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Lurie: Bad Banker] Reference

The court ruled that the duke's use of the Savoy name had been "unmerited" and ordered him to bring his "harmful conduct" to an immediate end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

Also known as unmerited favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2005] Reference

Severe as was this criticism, it was not unmerited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Lew's persecution was indeed "unwarranted and unmerited.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

He admired their constancy and pitied their unmerited sufferings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference

The outbreak of war, which caused so much unmerited misfortune to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference

The gallows have no terrors other than those of unmerited ignominy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The great feature of the cañon, which has given it the unmerited name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Woodhull, who seemed to have conceived a most unmerited dislike for the girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dixie School Girl] Reference

Sir John Norton, who was present, wept bitterly at their unmerited sufferings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

How escape deserved reckoning in the one and unmerited accounting in the other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

Esther begins to see that the world groans beneath weight of unmerited burdens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

From hunted sense of unmerited outlawry I have passed to that of 'ermine' function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

I had no wish for unmerited praise, but I was too ready to settle that I did merit it.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

It was poor gratification to you, to trust to me for an ample return for all your unmerited kindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

She had almost cast a reflection upon her friend, which would have been as unkind as it was unmerited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Woman] Reference

Nevertheless she bore up bravely under the load of the unmerited misfortunes which had fallen upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

It was this note of unmerited arrogance that partly accounts for the reactionary backlash that followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fresh Air Remembers Historian Tony Judt] Reference

"Better forget all about it, Bobolink," he told the other, who was still fretting under the unmerited charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats] Reference

The old adage, "Trust to luck," like many other adages that time has kept in unmerited circulation, is a bad one.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

Indefinite perils and unmerited gallows 'menace to this interesting erstwhile suitor startle not love-loyal girlish fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

So he wrote his mother's; and when it arrived she gave him most unmerited credit for skill, forethought, and trouble-taking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference

She starts up continually, haunted by the foul insults of yesterday and the immense unmerited hatred of the people of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

The sophomores thought her ridiculous; the freshmen themselves felt that she was bringing upon the whole class unmerited criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

And he looked at me with a face that craved sympathy for such unmerited wrongs, and showed still more plainly the baby that was in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

He that had the deepest interest in their safety and success must surely feel the deepest sorrow at their unhappy and unmerited misfortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

He exclaimed, with honest warmth against such shameful cruelty, and gave the man a large sum of money to alleviate his unmerited misfortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference

"I never, never was so bitterly persecuted; ask the President to protect me from this unwarranted, unmerited, and unprecedented persecution.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

It seems to have so impressed the English onlookers that the four galleasses are given quite an unmerited importance in some of the popular narratives of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

He did this work on a salary of three hundred dollars -- only to receive, at last, in place of thanks so richly deserved, the unmerited rebuke of a summary dismissal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference