worthlessness

Example Sentences

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Nearly all transactions in Venezuela took place in dollars owing to the hyperinflation and eventual worthlessness of the local bolivar currency.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

She was dismissed from the Army in 1982 after four years of service – carrying with her not just the loss of her career, but intense feelings of worthlessness and shame in who she was.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

But developers have long conflated pricelessness with worthlessness, allowing them to profit without paying for the consequences of destroying the environment.

From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2023

That so few people talked openly of depression complicated his private struggle, he said, and for years, he could not find ways to manage what he called a “self-absorbing feeling of worthlessness, of hopelessness.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

As soon as I’d said it I calculated the worthlessness of this autopilot adolescent protest.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith