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

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 Townsend, F. H.

It showed her that the gay throng in which she had shone was not all made of worthlessly flippant members.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Oh! how long and how worthlessly I have lived, Thou only knowest.

From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.