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useless

Adjective

Meaning

Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.

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a kitchen full of useless gadgets Source: Internet

she is useless in an emergency Source: Internet

All of the technological systems that are employed to enhance physical security are useless without a security force that is trained in their use and maintenance, and which knows how to properly respond to breaches in security. Source: Internet

After proving useless against Cell due to being slow and bulky, this form was dropped. Source: Internet

All the efforts of Innocent XI to induce Louis XIV to respect the rights and primacy of the Church proved useless. Source: Internet

As for the grain, he says, – since they have no pure sunshine – they pound it out in large storehouses, after first gathering in the ears thither; for the threshing floors become useless because of this lack of sunshine and because of the rains. Source: Internet

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