Usage examples (37)

• The drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
• This usually causes an eruption of huge emotion as the normal feeling of worthlessness is contradicted by the new worth in the person’s bank account.
• "trumpery," and so supplement the idea of worthlessness with that other idea, equally grateful to the author, of deceit.
• Aliens (1986), though his "worthlessness" is caused by an injury sustained in heroic battle, not something as unflattering as pathological-tripping.