unremunerative

Example Sentences

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They justify their unremunerative paths by an idea of art as ultimate redemption.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022

The Senate bill passed 35 to 1, but only after lawmakers spent more than an hour railing against what they called an unnecessary and dangerous intrusion on their difficult and unremunerative legislative jobs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2015

The virtues which the aristocracy had previously associated only with unremunerative occupations came to seem available in certain kinds of paid employment too, one might turn one's hobby into a job.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2011

Further, it became clear that if Producer Hughes did find a cast, he would have only the theatres which he controls and the comparatively unremunerative independent theatres in which to show Queer People.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chemist's report was not unfavourable; nevertheless, owing to the strong prejudice against the article, the sale was so limited, that its manufacture had to be discontinued as unremunerative.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken