useless

Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts.

In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar.

Effectively, dozens of brand new jets worth billions of dollars are sitting on the ground useless.

But policies and cheap raw materials are useless if businesses fail to take advantage of them.

“My insurance, even though I finally got it, was useless,” she said.

Of course Edna would like to hear Mademoiselle Reisz play; but she feared it would be useless to entreat her.

When a leaf is so young that it wraps itself around the main stalk it's useless to try to turn it over.

At an early date we find, further, a perfectly useless kind of imitation which is more akin to that of art.

It would be useless to put you to the expense of drawings, until you have made up your minds on what you intend to have done.

You will do well to send a note to your amiable friend Carr; it may save him a useless journey; for at my table he shall not sit.