Adjective : valueless stocks; a valueless promise. From Dictionary.com.
That is what one would expect and it further reinforces the relative valuelessness of current GE polling. From Wordnik.com. [General Election Polls Show Hillary And Obama Roughly Even Against McCain In Pennsylvania] Reference
Lets face it, no player has the brains of Sherlock Holmes or the telepathic powers to probe the GM's mind to work out the significance of clues and the valuelessness of red herrings. From Wordnik.com. [October 11th, 2005] Reference
According to most sane economists like Paul Krugman, financial institutions are in this mess partly because they refuse to acknowledge the relative valuelessness of their mortgage assets. From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: Every Man For Himself, Said The Elephant Among The Chickens] Reference
Uh I wish I could explain that last post as an antipost, a comment on the growing valuelessness of ceaseless talk, but in truth I clearly just did something wrong, CMS-wise, and was doing stuff IRL until just now. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing To Say | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
I had become a disciple of Lys 'fleeting philosophy of the valuelessness of human life. From Wordnik.com. [The Land That Time Forgot] Reference
He laid stress upon the valuelessness of birth, and the saving power of God's grace to the pagan who has come to recognize Him, in language which. From Wordnik.com. [Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria] Reference
Indeed, he has some rather strong expressions with regard to the utter valuelessness of book information in subjects where actual experience and observation are necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference
In the same way chattels real in England are said to have been degraded to the footing of personalty, from the infrequency and valuelessness of such estates under the feudal land-law. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference
I am glad to find, however, that he does not think it expedient to reiterate his old story about the valuelessness of vivisection in the establishment of the doctrine of the circulation. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
Our technological ability to discover the repetition of these tropes serves to illustrate the frailty of an individual writer's memory, the feebleness of editorial controls and the overwhelming valuelessness of purely "literary" writing. From Wordnik.com. [Adrian Monck] Reference
But if he could help to open the eyes of the cold-hearted, conceited, foolish girl, either to her own valuelessness as she was, or her worth as she might be, or again to the value, the eternal treasure of the heart she was turning from, she would then be a gift that in the giving grew worthy even of such a man!. From Wordnik.com. [Home Again] Reference
The complete valuelessness of the consumer to the people selling them goods. ". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Simmons: Wayne Coe is a Scream] Reference
In addition, government schools are often without discipline, and there’s a growing sense that government schools teach licentiousness, valuelessness, and hopelessness and exists only to give some students a venue to display their street status. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Home-school textbook market dominated by books skeptical of evolution.] Reference
168) it speaks of the valuelessness of written agreements obtained by force, thus recognizing the practical employment of writing for commercial transactions. From Wordnik.com. [India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge] Reference
In a recent piece for the Poetry Foundation, Goldsmith states that his version of conceptual writing “employs intentionally self and ego effacing tactics using uncreativity, unoriginality, illegibility, appropriation, plagiarism, fraud, theft, and falsification as its precepts; information management, word processing, databasing, and extreme process as its methodologies; and boredom, valuelessness, and nutritionlessness as its ethos.”. From Wordnik.com. [Writing’s Crisis v.1.0 : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
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