valueless
Example Sentences
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No wonder we’re trying to ascribe value to a valueless act.
From Slate • Jul. 15, 2024
The thing I love about poetry is its uselessness, the way it is, with a few exceptions, superfluous to capital, difficult to commodify, gratuitous in its insistence on avowing that which has been marked valueless.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
The prosecution estimated the pigs were worth $42.20 each, but since they were likely suffering from infections, the company would likely have discarded them, which would have rendered them valueless, certain jurors said post-trial.
From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2023
This is the only difference between these two worlds, and most TESCREALists would argue that the second world is utterly valueless.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2023
True, it was valueless stuff even to a clue-hungry detective.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.