a. (UN-1 7.)
[1775. Ash.]
1855. Faber, Growth in Holiness, xiv. 233. There are a variety of unmeritorious occupations.
1862. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XII. xii. III. 374. You may buy them [sc. votes] … by preferments and appointments of the unmeritorious man.
So Unmeritoriously adv.
1840. De Quincey, Essenes, Suppl. Note, Wks. 1857, VII. 299. Josephus … most unmeritoriously found himself … translated into the meridian sunshine of court favour.
