meritless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meritless
Adjective
  • The San Francisco 49ers are running themselves right out of games with all these worthless carries by Christian McCaffrey.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But these glasses are worthless without a mobile phone.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The brain is surrounded by a layer of tightly joined cells, called the blood-brain barrier, that acts as a bouncer turning away any substances deemed unworthy of accessing our most precious resource.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Evshine Memory Foam Slippers Listen, airplane floors are disgusting.
    Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the abuse that came later, though, was disgusting.
    Kevin Coulson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Within an outlying mining operation, a Mechanist mourning the murder of her husband is bestowed a strange pet as part of a bargaining chip from a dishonorable alien race.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 May 2025
  • This dishonorable behavior does not represent me as a citizen of the United States. — Sandra Burk, Elmhurst Submit a letter, of no more than 400 words, to the editor here or email letters@chicagotribune.com.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Meritless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meritless. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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