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Перевод: worthless
[прилагательное] ничего не ст`оящий; никудышный; бесценный; никчемный; бесполезный; дрянной; матерный; херовый [сл.]; хуевый [неценз.]
Тезаурус:
- Film producer Liam Brennan, who may face extradition to the US on deception charges, admitted using a worthless cheque.
- Her world repeatedly "proved" to her that she was wicked and worthless, and was being punished.
- Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system, how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented "in proportion to the number of their children", and how it led to degradation of the character: "The weak, the indolent, and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds, and the industrious, skilful and honest workman can expect no more the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates ought to be suppressed and prohibited."
- It has been discarded as worthless for any library purpose, like an old shoe or damaged pot in a mediaeval rubbish tip.
- It had been in an accident and it was worthless.
- A further 4,000 acres were allotted to commoners and the poor to compensate them for their loss of common rights, but since this was the poorest - indeed it was worthless - land, violent opposition was aroused among the commoners.
- And he argued, with endless gloomy relish, that England after the Industrial Revolution was becoming increasingly worthless.
- However, when these banks learnt, in the late summer of 1987, that the Agrokomerc bills were unsafe, perhaps even worthless, they were furious.
- Because MI6 possessed no one with any technical qualifications to analyse the Oslo Report it was rejected as worthless and ignored.
- Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her?
- In chapter 2 those two men are roundly condemned as "worthless", as putting their own profit before the service of God, and as having sexual relations with some women serving the sanctuary.
- Worthless words from mumbling shamateurs The Keating Column.
- The description of Jemmy Lirriper's model railway is a humorous epitome of the early history of the railways, with their accidents, the way in which the public was treated by the various interests, parliamentary and private, early experiments in signalling, "mushroom" railway undertakings, worthless railway shares during the mania of the 1840s, starting trains behind time, and surveying for new lines; summarized as "everything upside down by Act of Parliament".
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