worthless
adjective
worth·less
ˈwərth-ləs 
2
: contemptible, despicable
a worthless criminal
worthlessly
adverb
worthlessness
noun
Examples of worthless in a Sentence
The boots may be nice, but they're worthless if they don't fit you.
She's depressed and believes that she's worthless.
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In the cryptocurrency world, rug-pulling is when developers abandon a project after raising assets, leaving people with worthless tokens.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Everyone in the movie struggles to some degree as well and requests to be paid with three or four U.S. dollars at a time, rather than hundreds of thousands of massively inflated, practically worthless Lebanese pounds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The collapse of the energy giant cost thousands of workers their jobs, while millions of investors saw their shares become worthless.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
Investors in a risky pool of Credit Suisse bonds got crushed when Switzerland’s financial regulator ruled the notes were worthless in the wake of the failing bank’s emergency takeover by rival UBS Group AG.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Everyone in the movie struggles to some degree as well and requests to be paid with three or four U.S. dollars at a time, rather than hundreds of thousands of massively inflated, practically worthless Lebanese pounds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The collapse of the energy giant cost thousands of workers their jobs, while millions of investors saw their shares become worthless.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
Investors in a risky pool of Credit Suisse bonds got crushed when Switzerland’s financial regulator ruled the notes were worthless in the wake of the failing bank’s emergency takeover by rival UBS Group AG.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Worthless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worthless. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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worthless
adjective
worth·less
ˈwərth-ləs
2
: deserving of hatred or pity
a worthless coward
worthlessly
adverb
worthlessness
noun
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