meritless
/ˈmerətləs
/adjective
1Worthless or undeserving: it’s not an entirely meritless idea...
- Your political opponents could keep a meritless investigation alive in an effort to smear you.
- Only Bocklin vies with him as the most ludicrous painter, not actually meritless, in Northern Europe.
- Some say it's a meritless attempt to suppress embarrassing information.
1.1 Law (Of a case, claim, etc.) lacking some or all of the legal or substantive elements required to have a prospect of success: we believe that the claims are meritless and will vigorously defend against them...
- The lawsuit the group has filed against us is meritless.
- In the end, preserving everyone's right of access to the courts means tolerating some number of meritless suits.
- If the case is meritless, the accused can file to be reimbursed for legal expenses.
- free-standing
- Free State
- Free Stater
- free stock
- freestone
- freestone mason
- free stream
- free streaming
- free stuff
- freestyle
- freestyler
- free suitor
- free-swimming
- freetail
- free-tailed
- free-tailed bat
- free television
- free text
- freethinker
- freethinking
- free-thought
- free throw
- free-throw circle
- free-throw lane
- free-to-air