as in empty
having no usefulness
that expensive toy is worthless now that it's broken
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Those who do often struggle to find landlords who will accept them, rendering them sometimes worthless.
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Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
The government bailout cost taxpayers $3 billion and left tens of thousands of depositors with worthless junk bonds — a defining moment of the savings and loan crisis that unfolded in the late 1980s.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
This was a series that successfully managed to critique empty allyship, narcissistic queers, sociopathic straight boys (and girls), worthless parenting, incompetent educators, and, perhaps most scathingly, the inadequacy of the school system and government in the face of tragedy.
—Juan Barquin, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
Veronica falls for a worthless American poet in 1923.
—Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
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Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
The government bailout cost taxpayers $3 billion and left tens of thousands of depositors with worthless junk bonds — a defining moment of the savings and loan crisis that unfolded in the late 1980s.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
This was a series that successfully managed to critique empty allyship, narcissistic queers, sociopathic straight boys (and girls), worthless parenting, incompetent educators, and, perhaps most scathingly, the inadequacy of the school system and government in the face of tragedy.
—Juan Barquin, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
Veronica falls for a worthless American poet in 1923.
—Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
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“Worthless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthless. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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