worthlessly

English

Etymology

worthless + -ly

Adverb

worthlessly (comparative more worthlessly, superlative most worthlessly)

  1. In a worthless manner.
    • 2000, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Oxford University Press, page 368
      I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.
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