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Worthless

adjective

Lacking in usefulness or value.

Morally reprehensible. Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, wretched. "Ugly crimes" , "The vile development of slavery appalled them" , "A slimy little liar"

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... modern English poetry has, it appears to me, felt the influence. To the exclusive attention on the part of his imitators to this, it is in a great degree owing that of the majority of modern poetical works the details alone are valuable, the composition worthless. In reading them one is perpetually reminded of that terrible sentence on a modern French poet,—il dit tout ce qu'il veut, mais malheureusement il n'a ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... you understand anything of this? If you can, you will begin to know what a serious matter our Life is; how unworthy and stupid it is to trifle it away without heed; what a wretched, insignificant, worthless creature any one comes to be, who does not as soon as possible bend his whole strength, as in stringing a stiff bow, to doing whatever task lies ...

— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle

... plainly, and then you will understand exactly what you are charged with. Three nights ago we stopped a man returning from Lima. Many times he had gone to and fro unmolested, protected by a pass from Riva-Aguero. At last he was recognized by one of our men as Pardo Lurena, an utterly worthless man, who had already changed sides several times during ...

— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens

... and the palaeontologists of North America supplemented it with a number of Lamarckian elements without alteration of its essential principles (the Neo-Lamarckians); Eimer regards the transmission of acquired characters as an established fact, but rejects natural selection as wholly worthless; Weismann, on the contrary, denies the transmission of acquired characters, but nevertheless regards natural selection as the main factor in the formation of species (the theory of the Neo-Darwinians). Eimer speaks of the impotence ...

— At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert

... usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one; but, in the present instance, a few explanatory words ...

— The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew • Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)

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