not having earned or merited any reward or disadvantage
The distinction will be restored between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
Americans have long considered him an undeserving victim of Mr Starr's investigation.
I really should be unhappy at the thought of your spending so much money on suchan undeserving cause.
undeserving of sympathy
This team is not dirty and is undeserving of its reputation.
unmeriting in American English
(unˈmerɪtɪŋ)
adjective
not meriting; unearned; undeserving
Word origin
[1585–95; un-1 + merit + -ing2]This word is first recorded in the period 1585–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aberration, filament, naturalize, scuff, switchun- is a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative oropposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment); -ing is a suffix forming the present participle of verbs (walking; thinking), such participles being often used as participial adjectives (warring factions)