Sentence examples for basically worthless from inspiring English sources

There is only one problem: From a health perspective, the annual physical exam is basically worthless.

"An asset that might have been worth a couple of billion dollars is now basically worthless," he said.

Conspicuously missing from the reasons cited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel for why the annual routine physical exam remains enshrined in American medical practice, despite its being "basically worthless," is the financial one.

He wants the return of all profits from the share allocations, as well as the $1.7 billion these men apparently got from selling shares in their own companies.The bulk of the complaint, however, has nothing to do with these deals, and everything to do with how Citigroup managed its investment research, described by the head of the bank's retail sales as "basically worthless".

But the snub implied that Lucas's pop-culture collateral -- six "Star Wars" movies, four "Indiana Jones" movies, the effects shop Industrial Light and Magic and toy licenses that were selling (at least) four different light sabers this Christmas -- was basically worthless.

The 99er featured in Michael Luo's article, a 49-year-old unemployed corporate worker named Alexandra Jarrin, is a late-in-life college graduate and onetime business school student who owes $92,000, as she put it, "for an education which is basically worthless".

It was essentially worthless.

Unlike the patriotic, public-spirited, good-hearted queen mother, Edward was basically a worthless human being.

This Chinese invention, for sale to dictators that might someday find themselves under U.S. air assault, sends out thousands of false radar readings, confusing America's SAM-seeking missiles and basically rendering them worthless.

The usual answers are "worth trillions, taking over the world's entire financial system"; "a disused, half-forgotten, especially wasteful fad, the Pet Rock meets Ponzi scheme of the twenty-teens"; "banned, illegal, used only by criminals and in rogue nations, hence mostly worthless"; and "basically entirely replaced by some better, more efficient, 2.0 cryptocurrency".

"I basically began to feel quite worthless and it began to affect my work.