Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being valueless; worthlessness.

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  • noun Lack of value; the state or condition of being valueless.

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  • noun having none of the properties that endow something with value

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Examples

  • Uh I wish I could explain that last post as an antipost, a comment on the growing valuelessness of ceaseless talk, but in truth I clearly just did something wrong, CMS-wise, and was doing stuff IRL until just now.

    Nothing To Say | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • That is what one would expect and it further reinforces the relative valuelessness of current GE polling.

    General Election Polls Show Hillary And Obama Roughly Even Against McCain In Pennsylvania 2009

  • According to most sane economists like Paul Krugman, financial institutions are in this mess partly because they refuse to acknowledge the relative valuelessness of their mortgage assets.

    The Elephants Among Us Chickens 2008

  • According to most sane economists like Paul Krugman, financial institutions are in this mess partly because they refuse to acknowledge the relative valuelessness of their mortgage assets.

    Leonce Gaiter: Every Man For Himself, Said The Elephant Among The Chickens 2008

  • Lets face it, no player has the brains of Sherlock Holmes or the telepathic powers to probe the GM's mind to work out the significance of clues and the valuelessness of red herrings.

    October 11th, 2005 curufea 2005

  • After that she was an American girl, and then a heroine; and she was often studied against foreign backgrounds, in contrast with other international figures, and her value ascertained in comparison with their valuelessness, though sometimes she was portrayed in those poses of flirtation of which she was born mistress.

    Different Girls Various

  • He laid stress upon the valuelessness of birth, and the saving power of God's grace to the pagan who has come to recognize Him, in language which

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • Of the valuelessness of the one, Cain, Ham, and Esau are types; of the supreme worth of the other, Abraham, who is set up as the model of the excellent man brought up among idolaters, but led by the Divine oracle, revealed to his mind, to embrace the true idea of God.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • I had become a disciple of Lys 'fleeting philosophy of the valuelessness of human life.

    The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Of the valuelessness of the one, Cain, Ham, and Esau are types; of the supreme worth of the other, Abraham, who is set up as the model of the excellent man brought up among idolaters, but led by the Divine oracle, revealed to his mind, to embrace the true idea of God.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910

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