useless thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuselessandthing
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useless
adjective
uk/ˈjuːs.ləs/us/ˈjuːs.ləs/
of no use; not working or not achieving what ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofuselessandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We think that 12 months' experience will show that it is auselessthing.
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I think a speed limit is a perfectlyuselessthing, that it is quite unenforceable, that it is irritating and annoying, and that it will increase accidents in non-built-up areas.
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Vincent planted had not nearly reached their prime when an oak became the mostuselessthingin the world for all purposes of defence.
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Of all useless things what is more useless than a left glove, except to a leftie?
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Badges, stickers, uniforms and so on, these are all useless things.
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We have factories and merchants manufacturing and importing such socially useless things as "one-armed bandits".
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Surely the use of a great deal of our activity in making useless things cannot be justified.
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I regard this particular omission as of very considerable importance because we are all, in our various ways, concerned with man-power and the wastage involved in doing useless things.
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I know we give little enough as it is, but so much of it goes on useless things.
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I was saying that these particularly useless things, in the way of earning a living—outside of journalism and book-making—have far too long monopolised the attention of the universities.
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We teach them a great number of useless things, and we leave untaught a great many things which they might very well learn.
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I understand the argument to be that one of the objects of the tax was to discourage expenditure on unnecessary luxuries or useless things.
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I know, we all know, that words are useless things in sorrow such as hers, but they are all we have to offer, except sympathy.
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Will he take steps to see that these useless things which no one wants are not sent?
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They ask the unions not to profit by a free-for-all economy—while socially useful things are cut and socially useless things are left free to carry on as before.
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By devoting their formative years to useless things, they made themselves supremely useful.
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As his father's business goes bankrupt, he begins to obsess about useless things.
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It is often good for ones mental health to let go of or to forget useless things that clutter not only digital devices, but clutter the mind.
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He says he believes that the mind has a finite capacity for information storage, and so learning useless things would merely reduce his ability to learn useful things.
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