Word Finder - worth

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Value.

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I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.

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Merit, excellence.

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Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.

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Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.

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Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

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A painting worth thousands.

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Deserving of.

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His friendship is not worth having.

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(except in Scots) Valuable, worth while.

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Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

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This job is hardly worth the effort.

That was worth the wait.

Whatever the case, it certainly wasn't worth arguing about.

No book is worth reading that does not make you better or wiser.

It is worth $50 to you.

I think it's worth publicizing it, especially if the license plate turns out to be stolen and we have nothing.

But it held a beautiful golden tripod that was worth more than a thousand fishes.

Well, I guess it's worth a try.

It will be worth the investment.

To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life--I wrote this some years ago--that were worth the postage.

I guess they figured the land wasn't worth as much as they thought.

It's not worth it, any way you look at it.

I ought to apologize to the reader and to Miss Keller for presuming to say what her subject matter is worth, but one more explanation is necessary.

This house will be cheaper to build than a house today and worth vastly more to you for all the cool things it does.

An exception worth noting is that the poor who get better products at cheaper prices will see their wealth rise accordingly.

It was worth the trip.

It was worth a try.

What's it worth for you to be able to leave here?

It wasn't his fault he wasn't worth a damn at any of them.

He gave her an amused look, then poured her three shots worth of whiskey and handed it to her.

You said yourself that we have a hundred thousand rubles' worth of things in the house.

She was worth his honor and his life.

He never had been able to lie worth a damn.

For what it's worth, I apologize for treating you like you were subhuman.

Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, "Is it worth while noticing trifles?"

They do not even seem to see me, or if they do they look as if they were saying, 'Ah, she's not the one I'm after, so it's not worth looking at her!'

Pierre had first experienced this strange and fascinating feeling at the Sloboda Palace, when he had suddenly felt that wealth, power, and life--all that men so painstakingly acquire and guard--if it has any worth has so only by reason of the joy with which it can all be renounced.

The land's as pretty as any place God ever created but that doesn't make it worth a lot of dollars and cents.

Yours are worth thousands.

She looked to the bushes several floors down and decided it was worth the risk.

I was growing to love this town, with its simple history, proud of its old homes and field stone fences, telling the world it was a place worth staying.

You'll have to make some sacrifices, but it's worth it.

That was worth the trip.

The only qualification worth mentioning is the signing of the pledge of solidarity.

Practically nothing worth mentioning had been left behind at Suvla.

It was worth the while to see the sun shine on these things, and hear the free wind blow on them; so much more interesting most familiar objects look out of doors than in the house.

Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, a faint, sweet, and, as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness.

Was the deceit worth it for their sake?

If there wasn't something special about her, you would have said, 'This is not worth the effort' and moved on.

God, but she was worth it!

I don't think it's worth trying to snow her anymore.

After all, it was where he and Katie spent the few good moments they'd had, where he'd found something worth living for.

It wasn't worth the risk, at least this early in the week.

But I know it's not worth running into Others.

Well ... it would be worth it, wouldn't it?

Fairbairn, " Plato's arguments for immortality, isolated, modernized, may be feeble, even valueless, but allowed to stand where and as he himself puts them, they have an altogether different worth.

The Lap- surface of the North American arch is sagged down- worth's wards in the middle into a central depression which fold= lies between two long marginal plateaus, and these theory.

Some pearls worth £woo and upwards have recently been discovered.

He held landed property worth something like 250 a year of our money.

How shall we estimate the permanent worth of his method, the residuum of value in his maxims?

They haven't defeated us yet, and Jim is worth a whole army.