Adjective : a series of unprofitable ventures. ,an unprofitable three years in a routine job. From Dictionary.com.
During those fifteen to sixteen years, we had spent a great deal of time, a great deal of effort, and a great deal of money in unprofitably pursuing this development. From Wordnik.com. [Factors in Developing a Mineral Deposit] Reference
And you must admit the time would not be unprofitably spent. From Wordnik.com. [An Unacceptable Offer]
To many he may have seemed to be spending his time unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
THE MAGISTRATE, however, was not the only one who passed his time unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
Christmas day passed by there gloomily, and the new year commenced unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
There's only so long you can operate unprofitably before you have a bigger issue. From Wordnik.com. [Ford's New Captain Charts A New Course] Reference
The afternoon was slipping away unprofitably, I felt, and I still had a lot to do. From Wordnik.com. [For Kicks]
Italy prizes its national airline and has allowed it to limp on unprofitably for years. From Wordnik.com. [J.P. Morgan holders give Dimon] Reference
In the deregulated Texas market, a lot of power plants could end up idling unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Wind Power Fuels Fight in Texas] Reference
And here almost three months have passed, and I have spent my time so idly and unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
It may not even need to be profitable; the government does a long line of unprofitably things. From Wordnik.com. [Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch] Reference
Treasury might withdraw a large portion of it from circulation and lock it up unprofitably in the public vaults. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Books, like conversation, rarely give us any precise ideas: nothing is so common as to read and converse unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Many livestock producers are seeing the costs of fattening animals shrink from the unprofitably high levels of the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Glory Days Fade for U.S. Farmers] Reference
For it was of consequence, that he who said bugs were created profitably should also say that bees were created unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
And really, you know, it may be better at such times to read chit-chat than to be altogether vacant, or to talk unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
If my studies at Paris had been confined to the study of the world, three or four months would not have been unprofitably spent. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Life and Writings]
But such logic would probably be unprofitably bestowed, and it is wiser to take the narratives as they stand and make the best use of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The summer session stole away as quickly as its predecessors, though not, in so far as I was concerned, quite as unprofitably, for I got a couple of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
He thought, and not for the first time, that were he settled in the faraway, quiet village of Newberg, his life might not pass away so unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Yet these friends were a little grieved at my luck, for their great expedition with Feisal a fortnight ago to overwhelm Mudowwara had turned out unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The first of these no doubt is extant, and that in good perfection; the two latter are bandied so weakly and unprofitably as I am moved to note them as deficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
But who can complain of this, that shall remember what he has written in his Second Book of Nature, declaring that vice was not unprofitably made for the universe?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Your time there will neither be unprofitably nor disagreeably spent; he will introduce you into all the best company, though he can introduce you to none so good as his own. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
The month seemed very long, but it was not unprofitably spent. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion] Reference
AIG went after profits unprofitably; its owners should pay the price. From Wordnik.com. [BMI Headlines] Reference
This spring and summer were passed tranquilly by Endymion, but not unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion] Reference
A life without joy passes away unprofitably, shedding around it only gloom and sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life] Reference
The colonel left Scotland Yard with a sense that he had spent the morning not unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [Jack O' Judgment] Reference
In the perusal of the "Davideis," as of all Cowley's works, we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
But the mere man of languages and learning -- the machine of a memory heavily but unprofitably employed -- the. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
"It is obvious we cannot continue to operate unprofitably forever," he wrote in a letter to workers on Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference
I purpose to enter; but we may not unprofitably turn our attention to a subject closely connected with both of them. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
Fancy prices were given for the first issue; then they were bought wildly, recklessly, unprofitably, and on all occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
But I would not hence infer that translating is not a laudable exercise; for a man may be worse and more unprofitably employed. From Wordnik.com. [Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote] Reference
Foundation, a government agency charged with the task of privatizing state-owned properties that are being operated unprofitably. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
"It is obvious we cannot continue to operate unprofitably forever," US Airways CEO Doug Parker wrote in a letter to workers Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
The day thus unprofitably spent, had now come to its close, and the deputies left the presence of Don John with tempers as inflamed as his own. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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