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unearned

adjective as in undeserved

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As a white, educated, Western, middle-class male, I possess most of the unearned privilege the world has to offer.

Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance.

And often times this very hard work is done under the most difficult of circumstances—with unearned stress of the worst kind.

To those earning income; not to those sitting on unearned wealth.

They were mostly unearned windfalls collected from gambling on markets that were rigged to rise.

Again, earned incomes appear to represent lower ability to pay than unearned ones.

Death not unearned, nor yet a novelty in this house; Let him make talk in hell concerning Iphigenia.

The inheritance of unearned wealth quite frequently proves a curse rather than a blessing.

He pulls himself out of many a predicament and obtains many an unearned morsel in this way.

And it was plain to me that this girl was no beggar, no passive accepter of bounties unearned from anybody.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unearned, such as: not deserved, not earned, not merited, not warranted, unmerited, and unwarranted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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