uselessness

useless | American Dictionary

useless
adjective
us/ˈjus·ləs/
of no value; worthless:
With dead batteries, the flashlight was useless.

Examples of useless

useless
If such instances are rare though, strategies based on those games are useless.
The libertine is executioner of his own desire, and his bliss is free of any attachment to useless objects.
To compromise is useless: what side of oneself does one show by compromise?
However, such knowledge is, in itself, no useless thing.
Does this mean that non-experimental data is useless for addressing causal issues?
However, this does not mean that it is totally useless.
While these definitions are quite simple, they soon become useless because of the large number of terms involved.
While professing respect for that culture, the physicians insisted the family not be allowed to dictate useless treatment.
One should not draw the conclusion that this book is useless or that it represents bad scholarship.
Personal conviction on its own is useless, yet within the politics of poststructuralism this is all we can call on.
On the other hand a profile that fails to provide the user with required material is equally useless, however brief it may be.
However, a mark that can be identified only by resolving the ver y question that the mark is supposed to resolve is useless.
Indeed, one's judgement was useless, unless reached without coercion.
Even a complete record of the student's brain activity would be useless without some way to extract useful information from it.
In her panic to get away with it to parents - who are useless - she concocted the story.
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