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Recent Examples of worthlessness
Feeling Worthless or Guilty Many people with depression grapple with feelings of worthlessness.
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Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 15 Dec. 2025
Like regular depression, SAD can cause negative feelings like hopelessness, worthlessness, irritability, and guilt; fatigue or reduced energy; a loss of interest in hobbies and activities; and even physical aches and pains (including headaches, cramps, and digestive problems).
—Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 20 Oct. 2025
The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 15 Dec. 2025
Like regular depression, SAD can cause negative feelings like hopelessness, worthlessness, irritability, and guilt; fatigue or reduced energy; a loss of interest in hobbies and activities; and even physical aches and pains (including headaches, cramps, and digestive problems).
—Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 20 Oct. 2025
The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worthlessness
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These feelings of inferiority were, at times, amplified at home.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2026
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The above is all due to a complex of inferiority.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the general indifference shown toward its own story — or, at least, the best versions of it — comes to emphasize the emptiness at its core.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
8 Jan. 2026
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He was left with an unfamiliar emptiness.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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On one side, a satanic figure named Randall Flagg who gathers his forces of badness to Las Vegas; on the other, the good guys, led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail in, of all places, Boulder.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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Problems shrink into insignificance.—
Shilo Urban,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Nov. 2025
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Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.—
Rachel Cusk,
New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2025
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System-wide capital adequacy ratios remained above regulatory minimums only through regulatory forbearance that terminated in January 2026.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Rancho Cordova’s failure to turn over records raises serious questions about the adequacy of its searching methods, wrote Karl Olson, an attorney who specializes in the California Public Records Act and who often represents the Bee.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Homosexuality in China exists in a limbo between social acceptability and taboo.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Nov. 2025
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This behavior often sat on the margins of social acceptability; commentators described the bathers as lewd and unruly, flaunting their bodies and heckling passersby.—
Jacob Beckert,
The Atlantic,
13 Nov. 2025
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But Chief Judge William Pryor pressed Klugh on the sufficiency of the pleadings.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Nov. 2025
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The sufficiency of private-sector capital in enabling AI advances is wonderful for taxpayers, but the limits of this approach are becoming apparent.—
BEN BUCHANAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Worthlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthlessness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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