unprofitableness
- 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
It was Mr. Roger Greenhales, who farmed as a hobby, at a considerable yearly loss, to prove that the outcry against the unprofitableness of English land-culture was ridiculous.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
If the silly claim of railroad men, that Western people do not invest in railroad securities on account of their unprofitableness, needed any answer, the above words would furnish it.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William
And if the advantage or convenience of the new ways can overcome the force of custom, so can the unprofitableness of the old.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
The dream, the storm, the phantoms, and the unprofitableness could easily make a satirical picture.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
