unprofitableness

Example Sentences

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The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life."

From Time Magazine Archive

I do it with reluctance, and with a constant remembrance of my own unprofitableness.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

A man who does so is like the farmer who persists in planting the same soil with the same crop; exhaustion, barrenness, and unprofitableness are the results in each case.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

Then the commandment that went afore, is disannulled, because of his weakness and unprofitableness.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

While much praise should be accorded to the liberality and humanity of Alexander, the main cause of the emancipation act was the unprofitableness of serf labor.

From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Goldsmith, Milton