Word: worthlessly
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...charge: giving a San Francisco attorney a worthless $30,000 check last December as binder on a Hawaiian ranch...
Many debates on the advisability of nuclear test bans have centered around the question of detection. Critics of such bans have often claimed that without a rigid inspection system an agreement on testing would be worthless since there would be no way to tell if a country was trying out new weapons surreptitiously...
...sophomoric: when they want to be funny, these five people are often amusing (or at least they often amuse each other), but when they start being serious, involved, and in love, which they seem to do with a distressing regularity, then all the talk gets horribly embarrassed, and quite worthless, something like the dialogue in Cold Wind in August. Peter says things like "We're just excuses--poor excuses for what we could be." And Wilson, the hero, mind you, tells us--tells us twice, in fact, he's so struck with the phrase: "Gone, gone, the living past...
...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, everything looked rosy. Manny Celler. appearing as a witness, was almost lyrical about Cooper: "I gained great respect for this literate, articulate and erudite man ... I am proud to say that he is a good friend of mine-not merely a sundial friend, worthless when the sun goes down." After Celler finished, a parade of witnesses followed to add their praise of Cooper. Then, on the second day of hearings, New York City's Association of the Bar, which had announced its opposition to Cooper, produced a string of witnesses who presented...
...boatload of Belchen for a single Auerhahn (European grouse), a bird so wily that one stuffed carcass is often all a man can show for a lifetime of shooting (TIME, April 28). The duckbilled, chicken-bodied coots that the gunmen slaughter in their annual Belchenjagd (Belchen hunt) are worthless as trophies, and dead birds are usually given to the nearest garbage collector. Some hunters claim that a Belchen is edible-if it is marinated for two weeks in buttermilk and roasted with chestnuts...