Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being worthless.
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- noun The quality of lacking
worth , of beingvalueless ,useless or devoid of benefit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being without practical use
- noun having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
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Examples
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The problem is, young gay kids -- the target of It Gets Better -- are learning about their worthlessness from the actions of the President's office.
Emma Ruby-Sachs: It Gets Better, But No Thanks To You, President Obama Emma Ruby-Sachs 2010
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The problem is, young gay kids -- the target of It Gets Better -- are learning about their worthlessness from the actions of the President's office.
Emma Ruby-Sachs: It Gets Better, But No Thanks To You, President Obama Emma Ruby-Sachs 2010
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The problem is, young gay kids -- the target of It Gets Better -- are learning about their worthlessness from the actions of the President's office.
Emma Ruby-Sachs: It Gets Better, But No Thanks To You, President Obama Emma Ruby-Sachs 2010
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The problem is, young gay kids -- the target of It Gets Better -- are learning about their worthlessness from the actions of the President's office.
Emma Ruby-Sachs: It Gets Better, But No Thanks To You, President Obama Emma Ruby-Sachs 2010
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This usually causes an eruption of huge emotion as the normal feeling of worthlessness is contradicted by the new worth in the person’s bank account.
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As to the "worthlessness" of the bonds that the Treasury has issued to * itself* in the trust fund as a means of saving to finance its future obigations, they are no more or less worthless than any debt that any party issues to itself as a means of saving to pay a future cash flow need.
Social Security Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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No point carrying the burden of that lie, as well as of the great one, that you (alone among humanity - and along with all the rest of us who are alone in our 'worthlessness') are nothing.
Enough Dave Hingsburger 2007
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Behind the hard, shiny surface of black male bravado and black female flashiness is the reality many black couples face: eroded self-confidence brought on by self-doubt and acute awareness of one's "worthlessness" Petey says as much to Dewey that "talking is the only thing I can do without breaking the law" in the system and the narrow opportunities one faces when one is black and an ex-convict.
The Women Behind "Talk to Me" (Spoiler Alert) Anxious Black Woman 2007
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Behind the hard, shiny surface of black male bravado and black female flashiness is the reality many black couples face: eroded self-confidence brought on by self-doubt and acute awareness of one's "worthlessness" Petey says as much to Dewey that "talking is the only thing I can do without breaking the law" in the system and the narrow opportunities one faces when one is black and an ex-convict.
Archive 2007-08-01 Anxious Black Woman 2007
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"trumpery," and so supplement the idea of worthlessness with that other idea, equally grateful to the author, of deceit.
Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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