Crossword-Solution: PROFITLESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Profitless | a. | Without profit; unprofitable. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PROFITLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Without gain. | 1 answer |
| In the wake of | 10 answers |
| At the rear | 11 answers |
| in the rear | 12 answers |
| bootless | 14 answers |
| Losing | 15 answers |
| bringing up the rear | 16 answers |
| sterile | 16 answers |
| thankless | 22 answers |
| unrewarded | 23 answers |
| at the back | 24 answers |
| Unrewarding. | 25 answers |
| abortive | 26 answers |
| Trailing | 28 answers |
| Valueless | 32 answers |
| Unprofitable. | 35 answers |
| wasteful | 41 answers |
| rubbishy | 51 answers |
| Barren | 63 answers |
| Unproductive | 66 answers |
| AFTER ___ | 66 answers |
| Last | 69 answers |
| Vain | 75 answers |
| Behind | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROFITLESS (5)
Nevertheless, Rowland reflected, there are more profitless things than mere sound and gesture, in a consummate Italian.
For phrase-spinning, as I can assure you, is the most profitless of all pursuits." Whereupon Pope bowed low, wheeled, walked away.
None but those who have occupied themselves in the laborious and often profitless task of helping the world to new and useful machines can have any idea of the tantalizing anxiety which arises from the apparently petty stumbling-blocks which for awhile impede the realization of a great idea in mechanical invention.
There had been small unrepaid loans which Elaine would not have grudged in themselves, though the application for them brought a certain qualm of distaste; with the perversity which seemed inseparable from his doings, Comus had always flung away a portion of his borrowings in some ostentatious piece of glaring and utterly profitless extravagance, which outraged all the canons of her upbringing without bringing him an atom of understandable satisfaction.
Those who might have sunk their money in airship building thereupon patted themselves upon the back and rejoiced that they had been so far-seeing as to avoid being engaged upon such a profitless industry.
Quotes with PROFITLESS (3)
The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?
In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxur…
And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities, — the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and shadowy movings which come to her from out the cloudy pillar of inspiration have each one echoes and answers in her own expecting nature.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).