Crossword-Solution: USELESSNESS
We have 24 clues for the answer “USELESSNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The quality of having no practical function | 1 answer |
| Reason for recycling | 1 answer |
| Obsolescence, in a way | 1 answer |
| fruitlessness | 4 answers |
| ineffectuality | 18 answers |
| wastefulness | 18 answers |
| clumsiness | 20 answers |
| gaucheness | 20 answers |
| ungainliness | 20 answers |
| ineptness | 20 answers |
| disability | 21 answers |
| Tactlessness | 21 answers |
| lack of ability | 21 answers |
| lack of skill | 22 answers |
| AWKWARDNESS | 23 answers |
| ineptitude | 25 answers |
| ineffectiveness | 25 answers |
| hollowness | 27 answers |
| gaucherie | 30 answers |
| incompetence | 38 answers |
| futility | 49 answers |
| good riddance | 61 answers |
| silliness | 65 answers |
| foolishness | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with USELESSNESS (5)
The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of the surgeon who was Jekyll’s predecessor; but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of further search, by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance.
Ship after ship reeled and staggered into uselessness beneath the pitiless fire that we were undergoing.
The lioness fretted about the bole of the tree for a short time; but finally, either realizing the uselessness of her vigil, or prompted by the pangs of hunger, she stalked majestically away and disappeared in the brush that hid her lord, who had not once shown himself during the altercation.
Say to him, that, in deeming the best votaries of philosophy to be useless to the rest of the world, he is right; but also tell him to attribute their uselessness to the fault of those who will not use them, and not to themselves.
Royall heard her go he made no motion to detain her: his sudden rages probably made him understand the uselessness of reasoning with hers.
Quotes with USELESSNESS (3)
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1995–2020).