meritless

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Adjective
  • Loyalty points may be worthless Clint Henderson, a travel expert with The Points Guy, said many Spirit Airlines customers could see the value of their loyalty points vanish, with little chance of recovering them.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 2 May 2026
  • While the players who spent thousands of dollars on Legacy land plots still technically control the associated NFTs, those crypto tokens are practically worthless without an active game to monetize them.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • In postseason play in all sports, millions are watching who have not watched all year and this is the unworthy picture of UConn women’s basketball and its coach they were given.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The use of childish internet and video-game memes to describe violence is coarse and unworthy of the men and women who go in harm’s way.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • What a disgusting story all around.
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President #2.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This was controversial to the public, though, with many feeling that Pluto had been demoted in a dishonorable sense, unjustly kicked out of the club of astronomical objects that people actually care about.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 29 Apr. 2026
  • After backing out of an agreement to trade first-round picks in 2026 and 2027 for Crosby, DeCosta was decried as dishonorable, dirty and duplicitous, especially after Baltimore signed another accomplished edge rusher, Trey Hendrickson, to a free-agent deal the following day.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Meritless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meritless. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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