Protect...from unmeritorious criticism.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : to receive a gift for meritorious service.    From Dictionary.com. 

This time a hostile judge called their case "unmeritorious" and denied their claim.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's "Bases of Empire"] Reference

This time they faced a hostile judge who described their case as "unmeritorious" and denied their claim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments on John Pilger's New Book Freedom Next Time] Reference

The Berg case may be equally unmeritorious but I am not as well versed on it. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Obama’s Citizenship - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Some have expressed concern that whistleblower provisions may introduce a flood of unmeritorious claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming New Age Of Whistleblower Lawsuits] Reference

While Spalding was in Conneaut he wrote a few novels of so unmeritorious a nature that no one would publish them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

That was the power of Lord Rama's first blessing, which America is quickly eroding by it's recent unmeritorious deeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [ideonexus.com »2007» February] Reference

Perhaps, Bly's idiosyncratic definition follows from the unmeritorious assertion that our poetry is without the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Regulars: These samples of images] Reference

Unless unmeritorious prisoner suits can be filtered out early on in proceedings, I think it is fair to stick with the old standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape] Reference

Because they could not distinguish between meritorious and unmeritorious requests, they could refuse to budge from the letter of the regulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalahari Typing School For Men]

At various times in their careers, lawyers see motions or other pleadings that, for one reason or another, strike them perhaps beyond unmeritorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Progressive on the Prairie » Change of venue motion “incredibly asinine” and “professionally insulting” » Print] Reference

These complaints usually come from "conservatives," who claim that undeserving plaintiffs file lawsuits that are unmeritorious or downright frivolous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Gay Harassment Escalates Into Workplace Retaliation] Reference

Q Joe, the Independent Counsel did take a little swipe, saying that the White House had delayed and obfuscated and made unmeritorious legal challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference

But she had a natural aversion to indolence, and would not give a penny to any she esteemed so, lest it should tend to increase this unmeritorious propensity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference

I think it ` s unprofessional, if you want a better word, to file an unmeritorious bar complaint, which is dismissed within 10 days, against opposing counsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2009] Reference

And Mr. O'Neill reminds me that we talked about it on the phone and I thought the matter was unmeritorious, not worthy of the time of the commission based on all that I knew about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006] Reference

There is some reason to treat overreaching suits of this type summarily, to emphasize that they are unmeritorious and that trademark owners might be risking fee awards, even sanctions, for bringing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acrimony over acronyms] Reference

CHRIS MANNING, CUSTOM CLEANERS ATTORNEY: I think the court and everyone else has seen the ridiculousness of this litigation and how strong my client's case is and how incredibly unmeritorious Mr. Pearson's case is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2007] Reference

Wayne Rooney's agent used "absurd and unmeritorious" arguments to try to get the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

But the best way to let meritorious cases be weeded from unmeritorious ones is the expert panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

Instead, according to Mr Mill, Mr Stretford has '' constructed a series of absurd and unmeritorious defences ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Our fortunes, too, in this present existence, are determined by our meritorious or unmeritorious behavior in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essentials of Spirituality] Reference

"We will face the charge against us," he said, adding that they feel that that the charge of negligence is "unmeritorious.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And if, after all, we should be no more forever; -- far better to perish meriting immortality, than to enjoy it unmeritorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference

"This is because our laws are very pro-claimant, making it difficult for the media to defend claims, even when they are unmeritorious.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Nor did this career of false enjoyment end till his shattered constitution forbade its farther progress, and forced him to an unmeritorious sobriety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune] Reference

Associate Judge Osborne said "I am satisfied that this is a truly exceptional case and one in which the defendant pursued a wholly unmeritorious and hopeless defence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference

• Broadening the test for summary judgement of unmeritorious claims and defences to help courts remove at an early stage those cases with no real prospect of success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Newswire] Reference

She thought cruelly that Millicent's magic was no part of the girl's soul, no talent acquired by loving exertion, but something extrinsic, unavoidable, and unmeritorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leonora] Reference

The rest of the judicial officers were absolved of the allegations levelled against them, as the 471 petitions and complaints considered by Council were found to be unmeritorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thisday Online] Reference

That was the power of Lord Rama’s first blessing, which America is quickly eroding by it’s recent unmeritorious deeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryan VS Darin Round 1] Reference

“Any time any alleged batterer wants to threaten suit, I’m going to have to defend myself, no matter how unmeritorious the suit is,” Weiner said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oregon Refuses to Pay Legal Fees of Law Prof Threatened with Lawsuit Over Law Review Article] Reference

"Would you be funding a unmeritorious case?".    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

She described the application as "completely unmeritorious" and "materially flawed".    From Wordnik.com. Reference