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How to use worthless in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Worthless means having no worth or use; without value. Example: “Don’t be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job.”

Examples of worthless by meaning

adjectiveHaving no worth or use; without value.

  • Don’t be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job.
  • Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
  • The committee’s decision is worthless and not going to be acted upon.

More sentences with worthless

  • The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.From the entry exhausted
  • Copies of the original comic are valued by collectors, but the reissues are worthless.From the entry reissue
  • This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.From the entry swill
  • I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat.From the entry speld
  • Statistically, the study was almost worthless.From the entry statistically
  • The new recruit is absolutely worthless with a rifle. Blimey, she wouldn't be able to hit the broad side of a barn if I asked her to.From the entry not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
  • He traveled the back hills and swamplands peddling his utterly worthless “Dr .2017, Robert Edmond Alter, Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry swampbilly
  • How else could I show the world I was not a worthless idle-head?2014, James Alan Gardner, Ascending. From the entry idlehead
  • His father had been a worthless gambler, usually drunk, always mean.2014, Madeline Baker, The Angel and the Outlaw, page 41. From the entry over and done
  • He turned and quivered like a child, this worthless man that I reviled.2011, Felix Hagan, “Vengeance On My Mind”, in Dawn Breaks, the Monster Wakes.... From the entry revile
  • Once a worthless by-product, chicken paws or feet have become a major U.S. export (see Figure 26-3).2011, Frank Flanders, Exploring Animal Science, →ISBN, page 611. From the entry chicken paw
  • Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification, the habit of deeming everything worthless.2009, Judith Orloff, Emotional Freedom. From the entry floccinaucinihilipilification
  • The cycle of overconfidence becomes a cycle of underconfidence because nobody knows who is holding worthless paper.2008 January 25, David Brooks, “Two Cheers for Wall St.”, in New York Times. From the entry underconfidence
  • Since she never used curse words, she was calling Dad names like 'blankety-blank' and 'worthless drunk so-and-so'.2005, Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle. From the entry blankety-blank
  • Goes to show how worthless, racicist, even faschist and stupid the jewish religion must be.2002 April 6, NewJewHater, “WHERE ARE MULLAH SUICIDES?”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet), retrieved 14 May 2022. From the entry faschist
  • An unbendable form dries worthless, brittle, only fire unweathers cochineal mud.1994, World Order - Volumes 26-28. From the entry unweather
  • Though, else my magery is worthless, we shall see odder yet, for these be odd times.1969, Avram Davidson, Peregrine: Primus, Wildside Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry magery
  • This is failure and the machine is worthless, except for "psychic research".1945 December, Michael Rosenblum, “What They Are About”, in Chanticleer, number 3, page 23. From the entry scientifictionist
  • What had been considered valuable became worthless, and what had been regarded as worthless became priceless.1943, Kwok Ying Fung, “Out of Yesterday”, in China, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 14. From the entry chin
  • The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 39”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry deck
  • The loss from "shin plasters," however, was small compared with the loss from the worthless "wildcat currency."1914, Frederick Lyman Hitchcock, History of Scranton and Its People - Volume 1, page 408. From the entry wildcat currency
  • That represents a 99.5 percent decline over the last 30 days, leaving a singular LGB coin effectively worthless.2022 February 13, Technobarbarian, “‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Coin Turns Into Total Dumpster Fire”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet). From the entry LGB
  • He thought them disorganized, weak, and worthless.2019 [2012], David Treuer, “Chapter 1”, in Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life, Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN. From the entry disaffected
  • "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."2017 June 11, “DUP leader hails 'good progress' with Theresa May”, in The Scotsman, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025. From the entry desperation
  • Nine horrible, tedious, meaningless, worthless, baconless, cheeseburgerless, meatless years.2017 December 2, Kevin Shadow-Walker, “Various Randomness”, in What Is Wrong with You? A Collection of My Facebook Status Updates, Kage…. From the entry cheeseburgerless
  • Most of them guys was even more worthlesser than Daddy.2016, Johnny Saldana, Matt Omasta, Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life, page 348. From the entry worthlesser
  • Next stop on the worthless train is the tweens who range from ages ten to thirteen years old.2006 Twenty Something Essays by Twenty Something Writers page 113. From the entry tween
  • I thought our almost worthless cat, P.2000, Iris Lee Underwood, Encouraging Words for All Seasons, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry miceless
  • Chou Shan Island had been fairly taken; to exchange it for a worthless rock nobody wanted was the height of idiocy![1993, Susannah Leigh, Jade Dawn, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210. From the entry Chou-shan
  • Barnes was probably worthless, in his grandsonly adoration.1993, Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry grandsonly
  • But I was much of a man, and he was a little gangling, bandy-legged, whomper-jawed, worthless specimen of humanity.1942, Salomon Alexander Wright, My Rambles as East Texas Cowboy, Hunter, Fisherman, Tie-Cutter, Austin, Texas: Texas Folklore Society…. From the entry whomperjawed
  • Comrade Zelenko, as a spy, you are worthless!1939, Anna M. Kluchansky, Commissar Krilenko, page 178. From the entry outspy
  • Those hands and feet are also cursable or disdainful which remain indulged in other worthless actions or deeds without performing the service.2022 October 11, Sardar Paramjit Singh, Do Good to Others, Amarjeet Singh Paramjit Publications. From the entry cursable
  • When the music stopped, the entire house of cards suddenly collapsed, and all that was left, of course, was luft (air) and worthless paper.2010, David E. Y. Sarna, History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff, page 2. From the entry luftgeschaeft
  • Ferguson's sin consisted in his oracular 'unmasking' of a 'second-rate sort of society, full of second rate citizens, pursuing comparatively worthless objects.'2006, Lisa Hill, The Passionate Society: the social, political and moral thought of Adam Ferguson. From the entry oracular
  • I hated myself, hated everything, felt useless and worthless, had no friends, no love, no career, no education, no parents and no tomorrows.2002, Dennis McDougal, Mary Murphy, Blood Cold: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood, page 79. From the entry scunge
  • T-shirts for thirty dollars a day plus millions of worthless stock options, and for a month Chip rode these slang-slinging Webheads mercilessly.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry webhead

Meaning of worthless

  1. adjective Having no worth or use; without value.

Full definition of worthless

Questions about worthless in a sentence

How do you use worthless in a sentence?
Worthless is used as an adjective. For example: “Don’t be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job.”
What is a short sentence with worthless?
“Statistically, the study was almost worthless.”
What does worthless mean?
Worthless means having no worth or use; without value.

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