unearned
2
5.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɜrnd/
:
no merecido
- Her promotion was seen as unearned by her colleagues, who felt she hadn't worked hard enough for it.
- unearned run
- unearned income
- unearned privilege
And what he means by that is you can get an unearned standing ovation.
- And what he means by that is you can get an unearned standing ovation.
- And so all of that in some sense, is unearned.
- Her ideal is the person who neither gives nor takes what is undeserved or unearned.
- Rights get rolled back as those whose privilege is challenged by progress fight to defend their unearned privilege.
- But this rent because it's not productive and it's unearned income.
- There's a reason he draws such wild amounts of viewership that earned or unearned, I'll leave that to your personal opinion.
- You could say that unearned, unearned moral reputation is the consequence of false sacrifice.
Examples
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If offered the choice, he would sign up every year because of all the unearned privileges and advantages that come with it.
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People are often born with certain talents and attributes—for instance, oratory, musical acumen, physical beauty and health, athleticism, good memory and cognition, even extroversion—that give them unearned advantages.
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And there really are not effective tax schemes to to tax this unearned profit from them.
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But this rent because it's not productive and it's unearned income.
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I choose to acknowledge my unearned privileges in this life, but most of all I choose to love myself.
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We stand frozen beside the pathway, forever focused on the wrong treasure, victims of our own desire for unearned success.
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She insisted that although white people do not deserve unearned or special advantages, they deserve to be cherished as much as any other people.
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I was born into the upper caste, riding on eons of unearned privilege over a full 80 percent of my fellow Indians.
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And conversely, how prepared are we to exploit the unearned opportunities that drop periodically into our laps?
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"Affirmative Action," for all the benefits (and parallels), is largely seen as something that gives unearned benefits to minorities.
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Synonyms
11
4.2
A reward or punishment someone does not earn and that is not fair
7
5.5
Not worthy of help, reward, or kindness
1
7.6
Not deserved because there is no good reason
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
1
6.5
A run scored because a defensive player made a mistake, not from the batter's play
- Specialized
An increase in value of land or buildings caused by outside events, not by the owner's work
- Specialized
Money a company receives in advance that it must earn later and is recorded as something the company owes
- Specialized
Money a person gets without working, for example from stocks or rent
- Specialized
Money a company gets before giving products or services, kept as a debt until delivered
How Earned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unearned is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the verb earn, which means 'to get by work or effort'. So unearned means something you did not get by your own work or did not deserve.