meritless

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Adjective
  • Yet for the people creating it—all of us—this data has become functionally worthless.
    Alice Xiang, Time, 6 May 2026
  • If the option expires worthless, the seller keeps the premium as income.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 4 May 2026
Adjective
  • After one mistake too many and a little Machiavellian interference courtesy of his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor is stripped of his divine powers and banished to Earth, sentenced to live among the rest of us unworthy mortals.
    Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 6 May 2026
  • In postseason play in all sports, millions are watching who have not watched all year and this is the unworthy picture of UConn women’s basketball and its coach they were given.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • How on Earth could this Wild team, after dominating the first period and taking a 3-0 lead with a chance to keep its season alive and force a Game 6, collapse in such an absolutely disgusting fashion?
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • Just days ago, the CDC announced that over 100 passengers and more than a dozen crew members on a different ship, the Caribbean Princess, have been infected by norovirus—a less fatal but more disgusting illness.
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
Adjective
  • This was controversial to the public, though, with many feeling that Pluto had been demoted in a dishonorable sense, unjustly kicked out of the club of astronomical objects that people actually care about.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 29 Apr. 2026
  • After backing out of an agreement to trade first-round picks in 2026 and 2027 for Crosby, DeCosta was decried as dishonorable, dirty and duplicitous, especially after Baltimore signed another accomplished edge rusher, Trey Hendrickson, to a free-agent deal the following day.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Meritless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meritless. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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