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Meanings of worthlessness in English

Catalan
demèrit

Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful.

demèrit
Usage of worthlessness in English
1
Was this ultimately a sign of their worthlessness or of their value?
Hiding the Elephant
2
He needs to magnify his self-worth by reducing the victim to worthlessness.
Damaged
3
He had a fixed income and so knew the worthlessness of riches.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
4
He reached into his pocket, before remembering the worthlessness of his bills.
Victory
5
Because I never knew my own worthlessness, perhaps, until I saw Mabel.
The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea
6
His worthlessness, too, furnishes an excuse for your niggardly allowance to me.
Prince Eugene and His Times
7
Why, why do I at length feel conscious of my utter worthlessness?
The Young Duke
8
They described the worthlessness of the Britons, and the richness of the land.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
9
Such things may charm the little; sensible men know their worthlessness.
The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth
10
She says it sent a message of worthlessness to her students.
Radio NZ
11
Today's merciless job searches compound people's feelings of fear and worthlessness.
Reuters
12
The younger patient needed to share her angry feelings and sense of worthlessness.
Humanistic Nursing
13
You can form no notion of the worthlessness of the native Christians there.'
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
14
In rehab, Walter confronted the feelings of abandonment, loneliness, worthlessness he'd been carrying.
Radio NZ
15
Even filial love has withered under the shadow of Cassier's worthlessness.
Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
16
By the irony of fate, its complete worthlessness had saved it from oblivion.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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