profitless

[ UK /pɹˈɒfɪtləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. without profit or reward
    let us have no part in profitless quarrels
    How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
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How To Use profitless In A Sentence

  • let us have no part in profitless quarrels
  • The problem is that young people regard carving as a toilsome and profitless job.
  • Yet none was used, largely because their use would have been profitless.
  • He said it was in poor taste, utterly profitless, anyway, and not in harmony with university traditions and policy. Chapter 6: Adumbrations
  • Death and evil have always been a problem for religion and philosophy, and their contemplation remains a profitless exercise unless we accept them as inevitable facts of human existence.
  • Revising the procedure was an entirely profitless exercise.
  • It would be a mean and profitless world without mystery. CHAPTER XXIX
  • ‘We were enjoying profitless prosperity,’ he says.
  • The problem is that young people regard carving as a toilsome and profitless job.
  • Several of them, like many others, became self-employed in raising shrimps and crabs, but excessive rain this year made this totally profitless.
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