unprofitable
adjective
being without profit; not showing or turning a profit.
unprofitableness
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a word derived from
unprofitable.
Example Sentences
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The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life."
From Time Magazine Archive
Grant was slower than Sherman in learning the unprofitableness of attacking field-works, and his campaign was by far the more costly one.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
The vanity which he saw around him was indeed the vanity of the Preacher—the emptiness, the insignificance, the unprofitableness, of worldly things.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
I didn't add that worse social wrongs might and did occur daily, in the eulogized region; knowing the utter unprofitableness of any such discussion, not to mention its danger at a period rife with excitement.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Take away that injustice, Ellen, and men who now plead our unprofitableness would hide their heads with shame.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
