Adjective : a series of unprofitable ventures. ,an unprofitable three years in a routine job.    From Dictionary.com. 

I felt humbled under the sense of my own unprofitableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference

Breit, akleestaton, “a most inglorious spectacle of extreme unprofitableness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oeconomicus] Reference

Alexander, the main cause of the emancipation act was the unprofitableness of serf labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

I feel my unprofitableness, but was never more resolved to cleave to my best Friend than now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference

The third reason is, -- our unprofitableness, and unsuitableness to the means of grace we have enjoyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference

Virginia will hardly brook the opening of a rival Dahomey which shall cheapen into unprofitableness her rearing of slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

And if the advantage or convenience of the new ways can overcome the force of custom, so can the unprofitableness of the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference

Why, "they shall be given to salt;" that is, as I have showed, to barrenness, fruitlessness, unprofitableness, and eternal ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

A little time filled up with service and duty is inexpressibly to be preferred before a multitude of days spent in unprofitableness and vanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

Our failing herein evidently and apparently witnesses to the faces of most professors that this is the ground of their unprofitableness under that ordinance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacramental Discourses] Reference

He will discover hypocritical professors, and bring forth their hidden works of darkness; he will reprove others for their worldliness and unprofitableness under the gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

His errors were errors of unprofitableness, but never of viciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference

Their utter unprofitableness is only equalled by their lunatic vanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Far Horizon] Reference

Set by once more for a season to feel my unprofitableness and cure my pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne] Reference

The unprofitableness of second-hand machinery was recognized, and only the best was bought.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina] Reference

The dream, the storm, the phantoms, and the unprofitableness could easily make a satirical picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference

The unprofitableness of these vast domains can be conceived only by the means of positive instances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

He tortured himself over the unprofitableness of his life, over his failure to achieve official prominence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where No Fear Was] Reference

The sinner must see the unprofitableness of his unrighteousness, before he profit by Christ's righteousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.] Reference

Since after he had accused and rebuked it and shown its unprofitableness, he proceeds to counsel them; saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

He who has not courage to forfeit Heaven bv profligacy will scale it by pride, or forfeit it by unprofitableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical piety; or, The influence of the religion of the heart on the conduct of the life] Reference

We have had so much experience of the unprofitableness of former afflictions, that we know not what the Lord shall do with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

To hear some of them bemoaning their unprofitableness, we might conclude that the harvest indeed is small, and the laborers many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain] Reference

Or that the individual may be urged by the vacancy and unprofitableness of old traditions to make the Gospel his own — a life of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations] Reference

Grant was slower than Sherman in learning the unprofitableness of attacking field-works, and his campaign was by far the more costly one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865] Reference

A time of light and reformation discovereth the unprofitableness of those things wherewith men did formerly please and satisfy themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

The worst thing he could wish to the mountains of Gilboa was barrenness and unprofitableness to man: those are miserable that are useless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference