unprofitableness

Example Sentences

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The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life."

From Time Magazine Archive

The vanity which he saw around him was indeed the vanity of the Preacher—the emptiness, the insignificance, the unprofitableness, of worldly things.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

I do it with reluctance, and with a constant remembrance of my own unprofitableness.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

A man who does so is like the farmer who persists in planting the same soil with the same crop; exhaustion, barrenness, and unprofitableness are the results in each case.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

Grant was slower than Sherman in learning the unprofitableness of attacking field-works, and his campaign was by far the more costly one.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson