It turns out that the timber rattlesnake has a mostly undeserved reputation.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
That was always an undeserved reputation, based on her efficient technique.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
From this period, the last twenty years of his life, he gained an unenviable and undeserved reputation for being disagreeable and dishonest.
Stewart Lamont WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration (2002)