0 that someone has not earned or should not have; that someone does not deserve:
Librarians have an undeserved reputation for timidity.
These veterans took a lot of undeserved criticism for daring to speak the truth.
They say he used company credit cards for personal purchases, paid undeserved bonuses, and gave free rides to friends, family members, and politicians on corporate jets.
They have made me out to be a real villain and have given me a reputation that is completely undeserved.
Here's what you should do if you get a ticket for failing to pay the bridge toll even though you paid a toll, or otherwise believe the ticket was undeserved.
Surely this is a case of undeserved treatment-of requitative injustice-if any is?
Instances of undeserved pain and suffering provide us with our most poignant examples.
On my view, egalitarians are not committed to thinking deserved inequalities are as bad as undeserved ones.
For instance, some nonconsequentialists (who focus on factors other than well-being) assign well-being a low moral value that is in some sense undeserved.