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Examples of worthless in a Sentence
It was a worthless hole.
My intelligence far surpasses any of you worthless scum.
The grain is very small and worthless it the one, but larger and full in the other.
His touching love for his worthless son is one of the most beautiful descriptions of paternal affection.
Trees of good size are thus rendered nearly worthless, often showing little sign of unhealthiness till felled.
I'm your husband — worthless as I may be.
As these possess no glands they are a worthless substitute.
Queen Caroline was provoked into classing him and Bolingbroke, as "the two most worthless men of parts in the country."
On the 11th of December Giolitti laid these and other papers before the Chamber, in the hope of ruining Crispi, but upon examination most of thm were found to be worthless, and the rest of so private a nature as to be unfit for publication.
In many points, especially his great nepotism - witness the promotion of the worthless Pier Luigi Farnesehe remained, even as pope, a true child of the Renaissance period in which he had risen to greatness.
At the worst the watch may not work and the guarantee will be worthless.
Having survived all his rivals, and all his children except Robert and the worthless Thomas, Burghley died at his London house on the 4th of August 1J98, and was buried in St Martin's, Stamford.
The name is celebrated in Arabian tradition, but the statements regarding them are confused and conflicting, and for historical purposes are practically worthless, as has been proved by Th.
It would be difficult to name a more slovenly, a more worthless edition of any great classic.'
You can collect old bottles that some collectors or dealers might deem worthless.
Then he added, You might have better luck learning who's been trying to buy the worthless mine and who at Bird Song swiped the itsy-bitsy bone you found.
Eventually the tree is destroyed, and the wood rendered worthless for timber, and of little value even for fuel.
In 1798 he published a long and worthless so-called epic on the conquest of Mexico.
He was an unfaithful husband and often treated his wife with scant consideration; he was too fond of Dutch favourites like Keppel or worthless women like Lady Orkney.
Their commander, the marquis of Bayona, arrogantly insisted on occupying the centre of the line with his worthless squadron instead of allowing his ships to be scattered among the Dutch for support.
Once considered flawed and worthless, black diamonds are now rapidly becoming one of the most sought-after gems because of their exquisite uniqueness.
Until the recent past, farmers in the area believed these stones to be worthless.
The cheapest product is worthless, no matter how much you paid, if you cannot use it or it does not meet your needs.
In September 867 he caused his worthless benefactor to be assassinated, and reigned alone.
But this explanation of the name is as worthless as the rest of the Talmudic accounts of the Sadducees who were already dead and gone.
Under the present standard of evidence in comparing languages and tracing allied groups to a common origin, the crude speculations as to a single primeval language of mankind, which formerly occupied so much attention, are acknowledged to be worthless.
For years he had looked at all earthly good through the medium of a philosophy which taught him that it,, without exception, contained within itself the seeds of bitterness, and was altogether worthless and impermanent; but now to his wavering faith the sweet delights of home and love, the charms of wealth and power, began to show themselves in a different light, and glow again with attractive colours.
At the moment of his premature death his nearest kinsmen were his worthless brother John, and the boy Arthur of Brittany, the heir of Geoffrey, the third son Accession of John.
Such schemes were finally abandoned simply because the king discovered that his allies were worthless and that his money was all spent.
As he himself wrote, "the most worthless book of a bygone day is a record worthy of preservation; like a telescopic star, its obscurity may render it unavailable for most purposes; but it serves, in hands which know how to use it, to determine the places of more important bodies."
In Nial's, Gisli's and Droplaug's Sons' Sagas there is good verse of a later poet, and in many sagas worthless rubbish foisted in as ornamental.
But this act, as well as the vices and insane follies into which he was led by worthless foreign and native favourites, soon brought his reign and his life to an end.
Margaret also reformed the Danish currency, substituting good silver coins for the old and worthless copper tokens, to the great advantage both of herself and the state.
The Arabic " Book of Maccabees " contained in the Paris and London Polyglotts, and purporting to be a history of the Jews from the affair of Heliodorus (186 B.C.) to the close of Herod's reign, is historically worthless, being nothing but a compilation from i and 2 Macc. and Josephus.
He resigned the control of his government to the duke of Lerma (q.v), one of the most worthless of all royal favorites.
Some of the lesser sinners were forced to restitution, and in 1618 Lerma fell from power, but only because he was supplanted by his son, the duke of Uceda, a man as worthless as himself.
He laboured still, in mingled hope and apprehension, "to prop the frail and worthless fabric,"7 but for its spiritual content of democracy he had no understanding, and even in its nationalism he had little hope.
They condemned marriage (save, perhaps, first marriages), the eating of meat, baptism of children, veneration of saints, fasting, prayers for the dead and belief in purgatory, denied transubstantiation, declared the Catholic priesthood worthless, and considered the whole church of their time corrupted by the "negotia saecularia" which absorbed all 1 One result is their inability to form a true theory of Judaism and of the Old Testament in relation to the Gospel, a matter of great moment for them and for their successors.
This is why the world oversupply of worthless corporate execs has caused executive pay to fall over the last few decades.
There is no easy answer and if youâre not careful, your guests will end up bidding on a worthless fake.
Verse eight says, " A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.
In terms of historical research, these items are almost worthless; however, they throw light on their authors ' politics.
This means that most work done on most tumor markers is almost worthless.
So the poor milliner 's wares, although beautified by lace and ribbons, are worthless unless you are perched upon them.
Life appeared so worthless and pointless and I kept thinking about smoking opium again to make me feel better.
He loved pomp, and accepted many titles and awards - especially British honors; of course all unearned and therefore quite worthless baubles.
Anyone involved in this show should be soundly thrashed to within an inch of his or her worthless existence.
With an utterly worthless strategy no militia could have saved the situation.
However the move has devastated the Air Canada shares, which are now virtually worthless.
Any other extension is practically worthless, in my book.