WORTHLESS


Meaning of WORTHLESS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

As a member of parliament Mr Berezovsky is theoretically immune from prosecution, but he described this guarantee as worthless .

Out on the stairs a piece of paper as worthless as Chamberlain's prohibited the use of body oils.

All the seers and prophets saw the world as worthless .

Because MI6 possessed no one with any technical qualifications to analyse the Oslo Report it was rejected as worthless and ignored.

You will be as worthless as a piece of dirt on the sole of my shoe.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a completely worthless exercise

I'm afraid this banknote is a forgery; it's just a worthless piece of paper.

The jewellery turned out to be completely worthless .

When he died, all my uncle left me was a worthless plot of land.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And so it was I lost my worthless virginity.

He thought praying and other religious acts were worthless and hypocritical in the absence of active service to the needy.

I wanted to pay for the coffee, but I found that all I had was a couple of worthless coins.

Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her?

There was a real danger that these bonds would become worthless .

They're worthless , of course they are, or else why do you think the state government let you have them.

Was it not buying businesses and influence abroad with worthless pieces of paper?

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.