worthless

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Now, alchemy often gets a bad rap as being completely worthless, snake-oil type stuff, but this was not the case at all.

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Quick take

lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of worthless gathered in one view.

adjective

lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

adjective

morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for worthless.

adjective

lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

adjective

morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

See also: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, wretched

Example sentences

Now, alchemy often gets a bad rap as being completely worthless, snake-oil type stuff, but this was not the case at all.

<cranky rant> I am so sick of these democracy doesn't work, the powers that be own us, utterly worthless statements.

So warrant canaries, while seemingly clever, are actually pretty much worthless.

Unless those recipients, many of whom live in rual areas, were able to cash out their bitcoins on the spot, a bitcoin transfer would be worthless to them.

Afterwards, I spoke to some of them personally, they felt unbelievably rejected and worthless -- one suffered from depression and dropped out of work for a year.

As bystanders we should be very well aware that this experiment means absolutely nothing and resist his urges to conclude that it means that education is worthless.

Can it be said that such a large segment of humanity is doing nothing ennobling but is merely spending life dying a slow death while living worthless lives because work is done of necessity?

They can pursue their "passions" all they like but, in the end, they stand a considerable risk of being spendthrifts, worthless heirs, or whatever other pejorative term captures what it means to waste one's life away in the name of pursuing passions without focus or purpose.