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Definitions in simple English

useless

If something is useless, it has no use.

useless

having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully a kitchen full of useless gadgets she is useless in an emergency

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Simple sentences

The retired often feel that they are useless and unproductive.
Why do you consider it useless?
It's useless to keep on thinking any more.
For once in my life I'm doing a good deed. And it is useless.
I can't work at all with all these useless calls coming in.
Don't waste your allowance on useless things.
You shouldn't read such useless books.
Such an old fan would be next to useless.
Regard all art critics as useless and dangerous.
It is useless to talk to him.
His negative attitude rendered all my efforts useless.
His books are almost useless.
It is useless to reason with a bigot.
The information was quite useless.
The data was completely useless.
I wish I had not bought such a useless thing.
There is nothing useless in nature.
Theory is quite useless unless it works in practice.
All my efforts turned out to be useless.
All his efforts were useless.
Why is machine translation useless?

Movie subtitles

You useless punk!
Aigoo, this useless brat!
Such useless killings!
You are all useless.
Strike me and you end up in a cell where you will be even more useless than you currently are.
That is. quite an unprecedented atmospheric event, as well as being the reason behind the reconnaissance satellites becoming completely useless.
It's useless to tell you the name of my future husband!
The unconquerable pride of the Mauprats poisoned the useless quarrel, each holding firm to their position.
Never mind. I walk there, Useless.
How can I get my mule Useless across?
Seward, my friend, I must be in charge here or whatever I do will be useless.
The brain is useless!
I tried to stop the evening papers, but it's useless.
You have made my rifle useless in the fog.
I have to adjust it or else it's useless.
I'm sorry. I was completely useless.
I will accomplish this by fusing Ivan's telepathy with my own powers, then erase humanity's useless memories.
I filed defense statements, but it was useless.
I walk there, Useless.
Come on, Useless. What's the matter?
Come here, Useless.
Come on, Useless.
Wait a minute, Useless.
Mr. Flack, how can I get my mule Useless across?
Well, Useless. You're going someplace you won't want to sit down.
Well, Useless.
We have the two new guys. Those cream puffs are useless!
It is useless.
Such useless things.
I'm totally useless. my first major step went wrong.
You useless piece of crap that calls herself a mother!
Flattery is useless.
It's useless to read it so many times, he'll come today.
Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos.
He's too good for a useless father like you!
I'm not as useless as people say.
I'm useless as a dad, but please don't hate me.
It is useless and hopeless to talk to such people.

News and current affairs

Why do Piemontese, Bavarians, or Scots need intermediate national bureaucracies to run their tax policies, welfare programs, securities laws, and the largely useless, duplicative armies?
Security is useless without freedom, but freedom makes no sense without security - both national security and economic security.
A final reason for the West to change course is that Western sanctions are proving increasingly useless.
Because vaccines are useless if parents refuse to give them to their children, a big part of my job is to collaborate with health workers, community leaders, school teachers, and local political figures to educate parents about vaccines.
After all, the dangers that America faces today do not come from nation states, but from non-states actors against whom nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers are useless.
That happens when confidence and wealth have been destroyed, at which point rate cuts do indeed become useless.
But it would be strange to conclude from Greece's experience that wage deflation is a useless tool for improving competitiveness, given the widespread assumption that Germany benefited massively from it.
But if the financial system's dykes collapse, we may be headed for a decade of severe deflation, rendering expansionary stimulus useless.
Amassing useless concrete and losing human capital, the country lost twice.
Otherwise, they could end up without any handle on the Iranian nuclear program, and only one - useless - option left, a military strike.
The example of the use of the Brazilian cerrado, once considered useless, augurs well for the African savannas.
Ulemas (religious scholars) are useless for believers who must search for purely religious criteria that are no longer linked to a given culture.
European Community directives are useless.
So it's funny to boast that one's own brand of knowledge, whether experimental physics, mathematics, or cosmology, is useless.
They want to slash the budget not by ending the useless war in Afghanistan, and by eliminating unnecessary weapons systems, but by cutting education, health, and other benefits for the poor and working class.
In such an environment, long run equilibrium rate models are pretty useless as guides to short or even medium term exchange rate developments.
But realizing these aims requires cooperation from the government in Khartoum, whereas each of the proposed measures would only heighten tensions or prove useless.
For starters, people tend to think of taxes as a loathsome infringement on their freedom, as if petty bureaucrats will inevitably squander the increased revenue on useless and ineffective government employees and programs.
Napoleon was a despot, who waged useless and exceedingly bloody wars from Spain to Russia.
To lament the shift in global power and influence away from the heartlands of Europe and the US is useless.
But as the superpowers learned in the Cold War, the absence of airtight verification does not render inspections useless.

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