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Despite numerous potentially meritorious grounds for appeal, Joe's appointed appellate counsel filed an Anders brief—indicating his belief that there were no legitimate grounds for appeal and no credible basis to complain about the conviction or sentence—and was permitted to withdraw from representing Joe.† (source)
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Islam improved the position of slaves compared to their status in pre-Islamic societies, and the Koran encourages the freeing of slaves as a meritorious act.† (source)
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By a single stroke, the most criminal acts must be converted to heroic and meritorious deeds.† (source)
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Even during his adolescence he had devoured, in the order of their appearance, all the volumes of the Popular Library that Transito Ariza bought from the bargain booksellers at the Arcade of the Scribes, where one could find everything from Homer to the least meritorious of the local poets.† (source)
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But what had her mission, however meritorious or inspired, to do with real family life?† (source)
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It might not even be a person who—in their estimation—was more meritorious than the one rejected.† (source)
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"With regard to the claims of Lieutenants Gedney and Meade," Judson went on, "I find that their actions were in fact meritorious and saved a wayward, uncaptained ship from certain peril.† (source)
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Gedney and his crew had acted meritoriously and were entitled to salvage in the percentages and within the stipulations declared by Judge Judson.† (source)
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When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.† (source)unmeritorious = not deserving reward or praisestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmeritorious means not and reverses the meaning of meritorious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable ...He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor ...No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval.† (source)
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It seemed as if there were moments when he could by no means have sworn but that the old man was an ancient retainer of his, who had been meritoriously faithful.† (source)
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On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.† (source)
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And Mr. Richard Carstone, who has so meritoriously acquitted himself in the—shall I say the classic shades?† (source)
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If, on the other hand, he is an emotional, gullible man, feed him on minor poets and fifth-rate novelists of the old school until you have made him believe that "Love" is both irresistible and somehow intrinsically meritorious.† (source)
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They were good qualities, without which no high place can be meritoriously won, but like fire and water, though excellent servants, they were very bad masters.† (source)
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But there was still a tradition of affection for him, and it came to be regarded as meritorious and luck-bringing to climb to Shangri-La and leave a simple gift, or perform some manual task that was needed there.† (source)
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