worthless person

Example Sentences

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If volunteering isn’t making you happy, you can stop and it doesn’t mean you’re a bad or worthless person.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2020

She is known to have been a worthless person.

From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by Froude, James Anthony

I will henceforth consider myself as a widow; whose husband still lives, led astray by a wanton worthless person, and drawn away from his lawful wife.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

It may touch him, indeed, cruelly to think it; but is not the soul of the most worthless person of his parish as large in the eye of the Master as this of his first-born?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

Was it not her senseless indulgence that had caused the Vicomte to become the depraved and worthless person upon whom every one now turned a cold shoulder?

From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules