[ US /ˈjusɫəs/ ]
[ UK /jˈuːsləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
    a kitchen full of useless gadgets
    she is useless in an emergency
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How To Use useless In A Sentence

  • I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K. 
  • Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless.
  • I astound myself with my memory for useless childhood trivia.
  • I shrugged uselessly, before I turned to hear Alex's laugh vibrating in the room.
  • The next posts are often about useless slimming products and they might be tempted to buy them without seeking proper advice. The Sun
  • Unless these conditions are fulfilled, we consider any assistance given to the artels and the co-operatives not only useless, but definitely harmful.
  • Unless a member of the Vanguard or the Scarlet Scholars (both groups paying attention to what most consider obscure and nigh-useless knowledge), even most paranormal agents active today have only heard of the Bleak Baron Frederick or his granduncle Wolfgang and their works on fighting monsters. The Codex Continual » The Von Baurs
  • It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead.
  • You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Charles De Gaulle 
  • Using her pole as a staff, her temporarily lamed left hand useless at her side, she turned, beginning her hunt for the tricky sorceress and a place to camp once more.
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