unprofitableness
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The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life."
From Time Magazine Archive
I would say one word to vindicate the lover of old musty writings, and the explorer of rude antiquities, from the charge of unprofitableness, and to protect him from the sneer of ridicule.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather
Then the commandment that went afore, is disannulled, because of his weakness and unprofitableness.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
He tortured himself over the unprofitableness of his life, over his failure to achieve official prominence.
From Where No Fear Was by Arthur Christopher Benson
Meanwhile the unprofitableness of slavery in the Northern colonies had co-operated with the conscience of Puritanism to engender a sentiment against slavery in that part of the Union.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by John Clark Ridpath
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