unmeritingly

Adverb

unmeritingly (comparative more unmeritingly, superlative most unmeritingly)

1. undeservedly
   • It was no loss to society that Buckingham failed and fell. He was not the man to regenerate the nobility of England, or to plant moral principles on its throne. Yet, altho he perished, neither lamented nor unmeritingly, it was he that wove the plans and made the cords, which pulled down Richard...1830, Sharon Turner, chapter IX, in The History of England during the Middle Ages, 3rd edition, volume III, London: Longman et al., book IV, page 507
   • I must thank you again and again for the kind wishes expressed, and feel only too happy to know that my poor verses have, perhaps unmeritingly, found approbation in your eyes, an approbation of which they well may feel proud.1886, Madison Cawein, edited by Otto A. Rothert, The Story of a Poet: Madison Cawein, Louisville: J. P. Morton & Company, published 1921, page 176