Meritless in a sentence as an adjective

But just because it's cheap, doesn't mean it's meritless.

Plaintiffs decision to proceed with this patently meritless cause of action supports a fee award.

Spend six months training them to quickly bat down truely meritless suits, and to recognize when they get something possibly meritorious that needs to be kicked up the chain.

Instantly destroys the tactic of threatening suit for meritless claims, as if the defendant can see the suit is meritless, they can call the claimant's bluff and know they won't be out-of-pocket.

The idea is simply that Carreon's current complaints are almost utterly meritless, but if he's hacked or unlawfully slandered, his claims actually do have merit; even if they won't in the end be held against Matthew Inman, it'll still be a drag on everyone to sort them out.

My first seven years were spent primarily on the defense side, where I developed an intense frustration with insurance carriers who would settle meritless claims for nuisance value when the better long-term view would have been to fight against vexatious litigation as a matter of principle.

Meritless definitions

adjective

without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"

See also: good-for-nothing good-for-naught no-account no-count no-good sorry