worthless
Americanadjective
adjective
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without practical value or usefulness
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without merit; good-for-nothing
Other Word Forms
- worthlessly adverb
- worthlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of worthless
Example Sentences
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"It's taken the pleasure out of us living here and it's devalued our home, it's become worthless."
From BBC
“I couldn’t help feeling that much of my education is now worthless,” the paper quoted one scientist as saying.
When U.S. interest rates rose sharply throughout 2007 this caused a wave of mortgage defaults, rendering billions of dollars in MBS and other bundled securities worthless.
From Reuters
"If we had done nothing, CS shares would have been worthless on Monday and the shareholders would have gone home empty-handed," she said.
From Reuters
Laibach told STA Monday that they were “categorically asked to declare that all Russians are bad and that all Russian art is worthless, which of course they did not agree to do.”
From Seattle Times
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