meritless

adjective

Definition of meritlessnext
as in worthless

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Recent Examples of meritless Having already passed the House as a pro-business measure to address climate litigation, the bill seeks to shield energy producers and related industries from expansive, meritless coastal erosion liability claims. — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meritless
  1. worthless
  2. unworthy
  3. disgusting
  4. dishonorable
Adjective
  • Matter is never worthless, but assigning it a price does not necessarily make its environmental and social costs disappear.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Fraud tools aren’t worthless, but too many merchants discover their limitations the hard way.
    — Wayne Hamilton, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of worthless
Adjective
  • Some of those fans just believe the genre to be mostly musically unappealing or unworthy, but others also assume it to be made specifically by and for the MAGA set.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Denigrating the relationship—deciding, for instance, that the rejecter was evil, dishonest, unworthy of your respect or time— devalues your own history, in effect consigning the whole relationship to the trash bin.
    — George Loewenstein, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of unworthy
Adjective
  • People tend to think of waste as trash, sewage, slag, manure and other seemingly useless or disgusting substances.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The better to act out empire’s idea of what disgusting demonic sickness looks like.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of disgusting
Adjective
  • Connecticut has an association with witchcraft that’s as long and dishonorable as anything that happened in Massachusetts.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Finally, a dishonorable mention of Matthew Tkachuk’s slew foot that took Mark Scheifele out of the 2020 playoff qualifying round.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Definition of dishonorable

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“Meritless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meritless. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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