worthless
adjective
without worth; of no use, importance, or value; good-for-nothing.
worthlessly
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a word derived from
worthless.
Example Sentences
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They made their way, usually to seaside towns and motorway service stations, as ballast in ships or bundles of worthlessly discounted rubbish.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2010
I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
How many a green bud within us may still come to mature blossom and wither worthlessly away before another period of fourteen years is over, in 1865, if we are then still alive!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
Oh! how long and how worthlessly I have lived, Thou only knowest.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Andrew A. Bonar
I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.
From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend
