without merit

Synonyms

baseless unsupported meritless unsubstantiated unmeritorious

Examples

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. Joseph Addison

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. Nicolas Chamfort

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. Joseph Addison

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. P. J. O'Rourke

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. Alan Greenspan

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze. Samuel Johnson

Words in the phrase

without merit

Close letter words and terms

without marriage without marrying without means of support without method without mincing one's words without mistakes