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worthless Adjective 1. without value or usefulness: worthless junk bonds 2. without merit: he sees himself as a worthless creature worthlessness n
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worthless adjective 1. valueless, poor, miserable, trivial, trifling, paltry, trashy, measly, wretched, two a penny (informal) rubbishy, poxy (slang) nickel-and-dime U.S. (slang) wanky (taboo), (slang) a dime a dozen, nugatory, negligible << OPPOSITE valuable 2. useless, meaningless, pointless, futile, no use, insignificant, unimportant, ineffectual, unusable, unavailing, not much cop Brit. (slang) inutile, not worth a hill of beans chiefly U.S. negligible, pants (slang) << OPPOSITE useful adjective 3. good-for-nothing, base, abandoned, useless, vile, abject, despicable, depraved, contemptible, ignoble << OPPOSITE honourable |
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| In my opinion it is a worthless one, and I would rather not have it in my possession. Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless. Willoughby, he, whom only half an hour ago she had abhorred as the most worthless of men, Willoughby, in spite of all his faults, excited a degree of commiseration for the sufferings produced by them, which made her think of him as now separated for ever from her family, with a tenderness, a regret, rather in proportion, as she soon acknowledged within herself--to his wishes than to his merits. |
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