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It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing…singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.”

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

I get the impression that humans have a tough time digesting the firehose of information, both useful and unfortunately unuseful, that the internet is throwing at them.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2010

South Carolina maintains an old and not unuseful custom.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was preëminently an English project—not likely to be unuseful to the country at large, it is true, but calculated chiefly to promote the more expeditious and comfortable transit of passengers to and from India.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

A view of the useful, and, therefore, attainable, and of the unuseful, and, therefore, unattainable, arts.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel