worthless

[worth·less]

If you have your antique pearl necklace appraised by a jeweler and learn that it's a worthless fake, you'll be terribly disappointed, since something that's worthless has no monetary value.

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Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.

Adjective
lacking in excellence or value; "a worthless idler"


a.
Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.


Worthless

Worth"less , a. [AS. weor'eble'a0s.] Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
'T is a worthless world to win or lose.
-- Worth"less*ly, adv. -- Worth"less*ness, n.

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.

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Usage Examples

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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Other Usage Examples

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

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