unmeritedlyadv.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iv. 242 How those Dignities vnmeritedly are since taken from them [sc. Poets], and they in succeeding Ages vilified.

1767 Hist. Miss Pittborough II. xviii. 109 The forfeiture of one affection, that is so unmeritedly continued to me, would have exceeded a million other calamities.

1791 E. Clarke Sword II. 90 The Regard which you have so unmeritedly shown for me.

1806 W. Scott Let. 25 Jan. (1932) I. 274 Any prepossession which my literary reputation may, however unmeritedly, have created in my favour.

1840 New Monthly Mag. 60 369 A word thus unmeritedly sent to Coventry.

1923 Sat. Rev. 3 Nov. 498/1 In those prim Victorian days of a false standard of artificial virtue she most unmeritedly suffered social extinction.

2001 J. Brownjohn tr. Der Sturm in tr. L. Machtan Hidden Hitler i. 50 Those who wax indignant at this..can be primarily grateful to Maximilian Harden. Not because he has given the Germans an unmeritedly bad name, but because he has trumpeted an abuse that actually exists in our midst.