worthless
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They can expire worthless, and investors inexperienced with trading them should treat them with caution.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
"If people have no assets then these judgments are worthless because they have nothing to enforce them against. You are just taking them through an exercise of further suffering."
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
But most of the contents are worthless, except to the producers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Bear Stearns’s funds were leveraged at a 3-to-1 ratio, stuffed with opaque collateralized debt obligations tied to a collapsing housing market, and the assets ultimately proved nearly worthless.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
I thought thieves were worthless, too lazy to work for what they wanted.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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Power Suffix: -less
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