Yet unmerited praise on the whole does more harm than undeserved blame.

If we would improve our faculties, we must not seek unmerited praise, but resolutely listen to truth.

She smiled at her friend's unmerited praise.

I had no wish for unmerited praise, but I was too ready to settle that I did merit it.

I resemble my neighbors in liking to have credit for what I have done, but I know nothing more hateful than unmerited praise.

Their pretty, coaxing ways and pretences of affection are unadulterated guile; their ostentatious devotion, simply a clever manœuvre to excite interest and obtain unmerited praise.

'-'Why ,Sir ,shouldyou suppose I seek unmerited praise.'