Learn English – adjective for something bad that one did not deserve

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I need an adjective to qualify something bad that one gets but one did not deserve.
It's used as following

"One single action of hers had freed her from the chains of [adjective] ignominy"

I can think of misplaced, ill begotten, unearned, but none quite fit the bill here

Best Answer

It's difficult to combine the two concepts in one, undue would be a candidate as meaning unwarranted or inappropriate because excessive or disproportionate. The disproportionate part (most often) implies something bad, although you could imagine talking of undue happiness, but only for someone who is so bad he doesn't deserve it, so still some negativity there.

Otherwise you would have to combine two adjectives such as needless, undeserved, etc