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

In general, we believe politics is too unremunerative as a profession to be a field for the college graduate.

From Time Magazine Archive

His patrimony had been nearly exhausted in his education; his law-business was unremunerative; his paper, as we have said, was not a success financially; and his poetry brought him much more honor than cash.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various