Sentence examples for not meritorious from inspiring English sources

I am not saying that my writing is not meritorious.

But the love of God produced by grace is a sort of instinctive love, which is not meritorious and is not sufficient for salvation.

2b) Speculation in the capital markets is mere gambling and is not meritorious, however, it does tend to set prices according to the total value of all expectations of future earnings of a firm, so it's reasonable to allow.

Meretricious means tawdry or offensively insincere and does not mean meritorious.

"The people who get scared away," he said, "are the people who did not have meritorious claims to begin with".

"I never did devote a great deal of time to this matter," Mr. Holder added, saying this was partly because "the case did not seem meritorious".

And in Texas, since the enactment of the Legislature's 2003 tort reform package, which included a $250,000 cap on compensation for noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases, the idea that plaintiffs are now filing suits that are not overwhelmingly meritorious is "just ridiculous," he said.

To be above politics (politics in the widest sense) doesn't seem meritorious to me.

It doesn't matter how meritorious the request, Campbell will not go to bat for his constituents.

Yet if the post-feminist age is clearly not quite as meritorious as anticipated a brighter, more equal, future beckons.

All believers were called to their "vocations," and those of the clergy were not considered more meritorious than those of the laity.