unprofitableness
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The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life."
From Time Magazine Archive
In truth, the landlord had expended a considerable sum in fitting up this, his finest chamber, and had therefore sufficient reason to bemoan its unprofitableness.
From A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales by Young, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence), Sir
I should very probably have left him instantly, if a circumstance had not occurred, arising from the very state of unprofitableness in which I lived, which detained me in his house.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James
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
It would not be in conformity with most other parts of the world were the tract of mountainous islands composing the Archipelago of Tierra del Fuego condemned to internal as well as external unprofitableness.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
