[
UK
/pɹˈɒfɪtləs/
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ADJECTIVE
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without profit or reward
let us have no part in profitless quarrels
How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
How To Use profitless In A Sentence
- ‘We have been through a period of profitless prosperity with firms not making as much money as in previous economic upswings,’ he said.
- At present, and before our sentimentalists are a concrete, it would be profitless rashness to depict them. Sandra Belloni — Volume 4
- Recently, food Bureau of Standards of England makes a statement again: Do not eat carbohydrate completely, harmful to the body profitless .
- As far as foreign investors are concerned, China has become a land of profitless prosperity.
- It is profitless to continue arguing.
- As was amply demonstrated during the dotcom boom, many people bought shares in profitless, no-hope companies purely because the shares had risen substantially beforehand.
- It achieves that purpose by increasing the general penalties and creating a new penalty system for pyramid selling schemes that is designed to render those schemes profitless.
- ‘I know what I'll do,’ he muttered after a few minutes of profitless seething.
- Much of this lending, certainly, has been to finance profitless and negative cash flow companies, many having lost their access to the capital market.
- The cycle of hopeful experiment followed by complete failure went on in profitless repetition.