How To Use Worthless In A Sentence

If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Endorsed by a liar, that should be a clue that Grayson is worthless. Grayson highlights McConnell endorsement in new ad
However, the decline in the Tokyo stock market, which has rendered many warrants worthless, may seriously damage the market.
Don, you and the rest of your little buddies are the same worthless rat punks now that you were as 12-year-olds.
Despite his occasional protestations of friendship, he disliked England and thought her a worthless ally.

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Sam instantly dislikes the man and sees him for a worthless, no-good bounder, but Ellen is blinded by her need to be part of an extended family unit.
He made me feel worthless and ugly. The Sun
There is no sustained analysis to speak of, merely impressionistic detail woven into a narrative of tedious detail and worthless prose.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Diamonds, symbols of eternity, are not forever - they will eventually degrade to worthless graphite.
That she blames Bliss is clear from her calling her older daughter a "worthless miscreation".
Insulin coma received widespread backing from the psychiatric profession, but after decades of use was exposed as worthless.
During a recent conference featuring government and stock-exchange officials, a businessman named Bazarsad Jargalsaikhan won applause when he wagged his forefinger and scoffed, "We've been given many things in the past—worthless! Mining Boom Fuels New Mongol Hoard
But in this present world we have entire nations that see the woman, her nature, and her femininity as worthless, unimportant, purposeless, and unproductive. Women must ask whose thinking is that?
Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their relief work, offering to have a carriage take me around. Roosevelt comes—Mulberry Street’s Golden Age
It doesn’t matter what anybody says, you know that this crud is worthless. Genius in a Bottle
Imagination is the key to unlock the door to insights, ideas and inspirations, but it is worthless without purpose and meaning. Dr T.P.Chia
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
It's worthless to parade my BA in politics if I can't even verbalise my own opinions.
Nobody will make me feel worthless again. Times, Sunday Times
Ship hulls could be encased in rust that had to be scraped or cut off; potentially valuable copper wires had to be separated from worthless refuse.
They will suck your energy from you the energy you call money and will put it to evil ends and give you worthless dross in return.
Hay is of less value than wood . Stubble is useless and worthless.
But the men who did go on the stampede were mainly the worthless ones, the newcomers, and the camp hangers-on. The Gold Hunters of the North
The French call sensitiveness to insignificant and worthless things, the German way of quarreling (faire querelle d'allemand). Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Twentieth-century blue-blood decorator Sister Parish, America's version of Ms. Castaing, was asked once why she had put a worthless giltwood curtain finial atop a lovely antique clock in her entrance hall. The Decorator's Decorator
Otherwise your sense of self is lost and you feel worthless. Times, Sunday Times
continentals" -- became worthless because of inflation. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly. The Ranch at the Wolverine
This theft was premeditated because the barrow is completely worthless to anyone other than a trader.
He was worthless as a painter.
Well it looks like CNN has grown tired of Meghan "Air-head" McCain and its new darling is the worthless dead-beat dad from Alaska. Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'
Lower denominations such as 1, 5, 10 bututs don't circulate because of the effects of inflation which have rendered the coins worthless in day-to-day commerce.
As I understand it, the problem (or at least a problem) with conservation easements is that many of them are actually essentially worthless because there are already development restrictions in place (e.g., a home in a designated historic district). Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Problems at the Nature Conservancy
When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Some of the leaseholds were virtually worthless tenancies of shop-like premises.
That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather.
It made me feel worthless that he would treat me so badly and purposefully look to cheat. The Sun
I felt so bad, so ashamed of the person I am today, so worthless, so empty, so useless.
The worthless overture of the 'Prophete,' disfiguring this fine ensemble, had been hissed by some students of the Conservatoire, and, accustomed as I was to the blindness of the general public, knowing its implacable prejudices, I trembled for the fate of the magnificent septuor about to follow. The Great Italian and French Composers
Though it follows no known pattern of quiltmaking, and though it is made of bits and pieces of worthless rags, it is obviously the work of a person of powerful imagination and deep spiritual feeling.
And all the books and theories and mathematical formulae and religions and portents are worthless. LOSING IT
They're worthless as commodities, but not valueless to humankind.
Nobody will make me feel worthless again. Times, Sunday Times
But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards.
But talent is worthless if it is not combined with hard work, commitment and team spirit.
Damaged or damp-affected examples are worthless as they are unrestorable.
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
The guarantee could be worthless if the firm goes out of business.
Instead of being enchanted, we inevitably become disenchanted with programming which only offers a choice between formulaic sitcoms or worthless docusoaps.
We know envy as a state of exquisite tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.
University education, even for a mere passman, is worthless; I am far from thinking so. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1
The bottom line in the majority of cases is that gift cards and vouchers become worthless. The Sun
Allotments commonly became so divided by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing.
I had to juggle my exterior apparent happiness and my inner desperate sense of worthlessness.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
How could he put a value on something that he believed to be worthless?
Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed. Sole Music
It is absolutely ridiculous, totally worthless, and it will create more problems than it will solve.
In Saudi Arabia, religious leaders have repeatedly lashed out against movies, music, and many television shows which they call immoral and worthless. Infidels Are Cool
Liane: Spell check is a completely worthless program; trust the pro proofer here. A "Dreme" Come True
He knows this would be worthless: his own voluntary targets of a 20 percent reduction in Britain's emissions by 2020 were binned with a blush this year.
Otherwise your sense of self is lost and you feel worthless. Times, Sunday Times
Little tokens of frozen value, worthless pieces of coin, become sources of identity. Times, Sunday Times
He loved her now, desperately, deathlessly, knowing from her own lips that she was worthless -- loved her the more because he had felt her terrible shame. To the Last Man
In both men and women, common signs and symptoms of depression include feeling down in the dumps, sleeping poorly, and feeling sad, guilty and worthless.
It is unfair and unjustifiable when the tax payers who pay for these utopian benefits are faced with worthless private pensions or no occupational pension at all.
Old toys that you consider worthless could make you some money if they are still in good condition. Times, Sunday Times
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Can it indeed be bogus and worthless poetry that has obsessed critical reviewers for nearly twenty years?
Without context, what he writes on bimetallism is worthless.
Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious. Ayn Rand
The land of Canaan, which was once the glory of all lands for fruitfulness, is said to be, at this day, a fruitless, useless, worthless spot of ground, as was foretold, Deut. xxix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Just perturbance at another worthless uttering from a delusional campaign apparently meriting yet another "camp hillary says ..." post. Harold Ickes: Hillary Will Need "A Few" More Super-Dels Than Obama To Catch Him
One exercise ably demonstrated that if we feel miserable and worthless then that's how we will be.
And the reader will see (in the paragraph preceding that memorable one which winds up with the diseased oyster) that he must be a worthless creature for daring to like the book, as he could only do so from a desire to hug himself in a sense of superiority by admeasurement with the most worthless of his fellow-creatures! The Kickleburys on the Rhine
The defendant's pump-and-dump scheme artificially inflated stock prices before he sold off the shares, leaving honest investors holding worthless stock," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr . said. Ex-Executive Convicted In $110M Securities Fraud
Without wisdom wealth is worthless.
I was playing a woman named Mary Worthless who just was just a nosy busybody.
There was the appetite for business from credit rating agencies that gave their worthless seals of approval. Times, Sunday Times
And now I pretty much know I'm worthless as soon as I wake up, that the he can put the smackdown on me, and I don't mention it so much anymore.
My reading of most of the comments here is that stockholders in insolvent enterprises – i.e., holders of worthless assets – should expect to paid market value - i.e., nothing – if the government nationalizes the enterprise. Matthew Yglesias » The Grain
I know that you love the ring and would suffer it for the duration, but it is just not fair that your poor chap has had to take a financial pasting over an essentially worthless piece of jewellery.
The bags also contained cheques, which have now been cancelled and rendered worthless.
Opinions are worthless if unsustained by expertise and verifiable facts," she wrote. Tina Brown's Newsweek Relaunch Hits Newsstands Monday
Thus in the military training itself he gave up the practice with bow and javelin, leaving his men to perfect themselves in the use of sabre, shield, and corslet, accustoming them from the very first to the thought that they must close with the enemy, or confess themselves worthless as fellow-combatants; a harsh conclusion for those who knew that they were only protected in order to fight on behalf of their protectors. Cyropaedia
I was almost knocked off my bike by three different cars pulling over at the last moment and parking straddling the kerb and road rendering the cycle lane worthless.
Diamonds, symbols of eternity, are not forever - they will eventually degrade to worthless graphite.
There is a preponderant objection: popularity is worthless as an index of quality.
It made me feel totally worthless. The Sun
He made me feel worthless and ugly. The Sun
Hyperinflation has rendered the currency all but worthless. Times, Sunday Times
She felt she was worthless beyond words, unable to help her friends out of this.
When our words lose the ability to convey an ethical connotation they become sterile and worthless.
This absolutely worthless look at the ant-like endeavors of the roadies as they strive to erect the sprawling sets is mind-bogglingly dull and unimpressive.
Just because they're slowly shufflingly on their way out death's door doesn't mean Grandma and Grandpa are worthless - they probably have loads of cash stuffed in a mattress somewhere! Jilly Gagnon: A Modest Proposal, or How to Use Wasted Resources...Like the Elderly!
You will have nourished at your table the declassed -- a product which costs dear and is worthless. The Simple Life
He knew what the Duke was thinking and it made him feel worthless.
Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their “relief work,” offering to have a carriage take me around. The Making of an American
Lack of awareness and understanding by the general community encouraged a galvanization of international endorsements for what were worthless toxic assets from the outset. Government vs. Capitalism
Apologies have become hyperinflated, so cheap as to be worthless. Times, Sunday Times
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
He looks down on himself as an old worthless man that's wasting away his last few years.
Moreover, if you can keep your car roadworthy for ten years, then even assuming your car is worthless after that time your annual depreciation will have been just 10%.
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
They finally found a small gold coin which was almost worthless.
I left the big house feeling like a worthless schlep.
Devan woke up later that night and rolled to her side, feeling completely and utterly worthless.
What used to be a finely crafted shoe was now a worthless piece of junk held together by glue and hope. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
But his account of how he got to build rows of worthless houses on borrowed money is honest and straightforward. Times, Sunday Times
The GSEs will underwrite ARMs with assumability, but since they are ARMs, the assuming buyer is not locked in to a low rate, so it becomes worthless and pointless. Irvine Housing Blog
What should we do when people say their lives are meaningless and worthless and they want to die?
You're going to see those things, with the mortgages being foreclosed, on the people who no longer have any income, whose stock options are worthless and whose salaries have just vanished, and whose companies have just gone.
At the heart of her imagining is the bitterness of being scorned by worthless people who have power and money. Times, Sunday Times
His case was that the catch limit conditions had made the putcher rank fishery wholly uneconomic and the lease worthless. Times, Sunday Times
She can fight with a gun but she is worthless in a fist fight.
But much more then that, how moronic is it to join in a field ... to go thru a 4 year program (no matter how worthless it may be) without, apparently, knowing that the beginning pay is around $32K or so a year ... a damned good wage for a 182 day per year job. Sound Politics: "Ample provision" is a function of both funding and expenses
It can make us feel worthless. Times, Sunday Times
Before him my real dad was abusive and made me feel worthless. The Sun
Many of you have heard or experienced the pantheon of paid advertisements - so called ‘infomercials’ - that appear regularly on stations trying to rid themselves of essentially worthless and unmarketable air time.
Little tokens of frozen value, worthless pieces of coin, become sources of identity. Times, Sunday Times
He'd let it go, it was worthless to him, the companies and bonds and the woman and children, the jog-trotting on fenced roads, the vain pretentions of the country club, the petty grasping at the petticoats -- where they were worn -- of variety. Cytherea
It made me feel worthless that he would treat me so badly and purposefully look to cheat. The Sun
Of course, any land that is valuable today was doubtless once worthless.
The bad men, said he, the weak and worthless, blunder into danger and burn their feet, but the good men, they who have any character, they who have that within them which can reflect credit on their alma mater, they come through scatheless. Barchester Towers
With regard to your editorial "The Election Gong Show" (Oct. 14): High tariffs and a worthless dollar are not the route to American prosperity, even if the Chinese yuan is undervalued. Devaluation and Tariffs Are Madness
It is possible to predict in advance that the official pronouncements of this talkfest will be just as righteous and rosy as the last - and just as worthless.
It can make us feel worthless. Times, Sunday Times
They all lack real hope in the future, see no point in looking for tomorrow, and believe that they are worthless.
It made me feel totally worthless. The Sun
Obviously, with every man and his dog being able to update the pages of such a site, there was always a very real risk that idiots would try to fill it with disinformation, advertising and other worthless flotsam.
The worthwhile will be separated from the worthless, the most challenging work will be identified while the jejune and the formula-riven will be duly ignored. Principles of Literary Criticism
While Katherine was spanked on occasion, the punishment that she feared most was psychological - making Katherine feel guilty or worthless for her mistakes.
Perhaps Vendors will miscode to discourage credit card usage at their location if the rebate becomes worthless? Pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their "relief work," offering to have a carriage take me around. The Making of an American
It had been breathing, but body was the right word just the same; it had only been a worthless thing, like a cast-off towsack which some idiot had stuffed full of weeds or cornshucks. The Drawing of the Three
He foisted the box of worthless gadgets back onto Katie then did a quick reconnoitre of their current position.
I want rid of this worthless junk. Times, Sunday Times
The pretorian prefect, John, was a man of worthless character, and so skilful at devising ways of bringing money into the public treasury to the detriment of men that I, for my part, should never be competent to describe this trait of his. History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War
He was sad and tearful most of the time, wanting to resign his job as he felt he was worthless.
If you cannot stomach a breach of decorum when justified outrage erupts then your support is nearly worthless anyway.
Otherwise your sense of self is lost and you feel worthless. Times, Sunday Times
I worthlessly hoped it was late enough that my dad would be asleep, so that he would not notice that I came in past curfew.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
And the proof of your assertion is the great show of enthusiasm the socialist stock market is making for this Great Leap Forward by pouring its soon to be voided currency of the pre-socialist USA into shares of the soon to be worthless health insurers. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
She struggled to overcome her feelings of worthlessness.
How can something so valuable to one group of people be so worthless to the next?
Indeed, they are often regarded as lazy and worthless persons who constitute drains on society's resources. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
I think it is part of Dadd's predilection for double-speak and dangerous puns: "Elimination" contains the word "limn" which is a good word for painting, but also is part of Dadd's habit of decrying painting as pointless and worthless. The Guardian World News
The auto-enrolment will mean poor people who shouldn't save will end up paying into a pension that is worthless to them.
A car seller was duped out of nearly £10,000 by a buyer with a worthless forged banker's draft.
EXAMPLE: The reports of huge profits being made in the sales of the worthless product were just flimflam invented to stimulate investment by naive people.
That makes me feel worthless. The Sun
Nobody will make me feel worthless again. Times, Sunday Times
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
A commenter would really have to persistently go out of their way to be worthless, to develop a clear pattern of being at once trite, obnoxious, brainless, and valueless in sum, having nothing at all to contribute and being distinguished from a troll solely by persistence efore graduating to Freder's persona non grata status. Now, let me be Instapundit for a while.
The ban, retroactive to exports produced since January 15, would have meant that hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of goods en route or waiting for customs clearance or stock ready for export would have become virtually worthless.
Handwritten communications that are unreadable are annoying and worthless.
The book, the title of which is now virtually a byword for political fanatics, explored the individual whose inner sense of worthlessness, confusion or rage seeks refuge and validating rebirth within a charismatic mass movement.
He buys worthless junk from the villagers - and persuades them to tell him their deepest secrets in his back room at midnight. Times, Sunday Times
But it is worthless compared with the priceless items that were taken, like didapper and nautch. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
Teenagers, in particular, are susceptible to feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem because they cannot measure up to the perceived ideal of air-brushed perfection.
These points became more and more worthy of note as the war went on, and the North, after its first clumsy struggles, went to work with more earnestness, made a real blockade, and by enormous levies from a worthless population which it was only too glad to expend, measured its military purse, so to speak, against that of the South, but to a large extent gave counters for sovereigns. London: Saturday, December 26, 1863
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
At the heart of her imagining is the bitterness of being scorned by worthless people who have power and money. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, recruiters told him he was worthless and asked him make his own way home.
I basically felt pretty worthless and there wasn't a lot left in me.
Like Tugwell and many future New Dealers, Johnson saw the Great War not as the worthless horror that most Americans considered it to be but as a long-awaited opportunity to militarize all of society. A Renegade History of the United States
He knew that the days of being able to con thousands of people into paying for his worthless courses were over.
It nauseates me to see people running after magic pills, worthless dietary supplements, and fad diets.
Old toys that you consider worthless could make you some money if they are still in good condition. Times, Sunday Times
Opportunity is useless or worthless without ability, preparation and action. Dr T.P.Chia
One was a controversial land swap where the city got some worthless acres and Occidental got some land which turned out to be quite rich in oil.
Flipping sketches of property for profits sounds an awful lot like buying the worthless paper of profitless Internet companies in the late 90s, does it not?
Buyers need to tell some one close to them they have made the arrangements, otherwise the policy will be worthless.
The whole point of a debate - like a prizefight - is for somebody to win, and a pundit who declares a debate a draw is as worthless as the pundit who says ‘no comment’ to a direct question.
I don't think this luxury is afforded to the "common man", only to worthless cheating corrupt Democrats (which is most of them). Former congressman to remain free pending appeal of corruption conviction
The bonesetter had to give Chang's matchmaker an awkward answer: "I'm sorry," he said, "but my daughter cried herself sick, unable to bear the thought of leaving her worthless father. The Bonesetter's Daughter
They all lack real hope in the future, see no point in looking for tomorrow, and believe that they are worthless.
As they participate with peers in the creation of self-definitions, they move from feelings of worthlessness and disempowerment to confidence and well-being.
She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead. World’s Great Men of Color
It forced pension funds to exchange their long-term deposits for an essentially unpayable and therefore worthless sovereign bond. Times, Sunday Times
There was enough of a gap before seeing the county sheriff for a breathalyser test to be worthless.
The opinion of a twice convicted underage alcoholic, is worthless. Jenna Bush may not back McCain
Is it excessively hyperbolic to call them worthless scum?
It also offers a prime taunting spot: During several Phillies games this week, more than 200 knotholers heckled Philadelphia players on the field: "Worthless!" they brayed at right fielder Jayson Werth, who ignored them. Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play
You are living your life, you are unembarrassed to talk to new people, you are not ashamed of your worthlessness.
The American flag, on the moon or anywhere else, is worthless except as a symbol, a symbol of men achieving their ends by voluntary association, cooperating through mutual exchange in a free society.
He dismissed the opinion polls as worthless.
Translations made without showing their grammatical structure are worthless and a possible sign of someone conceitedly pulling the reader's leg, wasting their good time. Ipa ama hen
But for the last Bushmen of the central Kalahari, all this is worthless: worse, it all brings a bullying destructiveness which could spell their end.
If anyone else has these in their hand at the end of a round their entire hand is worthless!
The diseased plants are quite worthless to the farmer.
There would be no one that would ever beat him again, or tell him he was worthless.
Yea I know-all the "maximized" worthless processes have about made me throw in the towel! Launching the 21st Century American Aerospace Workforce - NASA Watch
As borrowers defaulted, the banks found themselves with a lot of worthless loan portfolios.
You, you worthless cunny have the badger faced cheek to ask us to tighten our belts. Archive 2008-06-01

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