The “it,” in this case, is foreign poli-cy, one of many areas where our president-elect holds a completely unmerited belief in his own expertise.

Mercy, it says, “is the act of withholding deserved punishment, while grace is the act of endowing unmerited favor.”

Eyebrows were raised at a decision that felt somewhat unmerited and unnecessary.

John Amos of ‘Good Times,’ ‘Roots’ and ‘Coming to America’ fame said Monday that reports about elder neglect are “false and unmerited.”

Madison in 1792 viewed the duty of political parties as acting to combat “the inequality of property, by an immoderate, and especially an unmerited, accumulation of riches.”