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Recent Examples of worthlessness
He is simultaneously convinced of his own worthlessness and angry with the world for failing to recognize his unlimited potential.
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Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
Johnson said depression often manifests as persistent negative self-perception, hopelessness, feelings of worthlessness and social withdrawal.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
Kitty, whose worldly possessions fit into two plastic bags, is seen repeatedly in the same clothes, and bourgeois hostility to her presence in Beth’s middle-class neighborhood compounds her feelings of worthlessness.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2026
Feeling Worthless or Guilty Many people with depression grapple with feelings of worthlessness.
—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
As many as one in eight women in the United States will experience postpartum depression, which can manifest in feelings such as anger, social withdrawal, and worthlessness, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research.
—Jessica Zucker, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2021
Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
Johnson said depression often manifests as persistent negative self-perception, hopelessness, feelings of worthlessness and social withdrawal.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
Kitty, whose worldly possessions fit into two plastic bags, is seen repeatedly in the same clothes, and bourgeois hostility to her presence in Beth’s middle-class neighborhood compounds her feelings of worthlessness.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2026
Feeling Worthless or Guilty Many people with depression grapple with feelings of worthlessness.
—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
As many as one in eight women in the United States will experience postpartum depression, which can manifest in feelings such as anger, social withdrawal, and worthlessness, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research.
—Jessica Zucker, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worthlessness
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The condition is marked by intense emotional swings, a chronic feeling of emptiness, and a deep fear of abandonment.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
11 June 2026
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Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages.—
Kai James,
The Conversation,
26 May 2026
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Indeed, the American League’s inferiority to the National this year is palpable.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2026
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Amadeus is a portrait of a man realizing his own inferiority and losing his religion as a result, and Bettany’s incredible rendition of Salieri shapes the series’ rumination on who yearns to command a stage and why.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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Artist Meredith Reynolds believed Platner’s past paled into insignificance when compared with his opponents.—
David Millward,
The Washington Examiner,
7 June 2026
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Problems shrink into insignificance.—
Shilo Urban,
Travel + Leisure,
19 May 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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Quantum exposure cuts across data, supplier contracts, capital allocation, customer commitments, regulatory adequacy and board appetite.—
Maman Ibrahim,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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More than half of the regions NERC studied could face resource-adequacy problems in that window, a worsening outlook that the group partly attributes to data centers.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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The rate has been gradually dropping for decades, due to cigarette taxes, tobacco product price hikes, smoking bans, public education campaigns and changes in the social acceptability of lighting up in public.—
Mike Stobbe,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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People who feel othered often describe exhaustion from performing acceptability.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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What’s worrying to him is that abundance can masquerade as sufficiency.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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Some have raised concerns about the cleanup’s sufficiency.—
Michelle de la Uz,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2026
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“Worthlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthlessness. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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