Sentence examples for if not useless from inspiring English sources

A broad brush is harmful, if not useless.

Such is the case throughout Krasznahorkai's work: epiphanies occur with regularity but are, if not useless, then obstructive.

Fortunately, technology has rendered folders and labels, if not useless, severely diminished in their importance and promise.

"My personal opinion in this particular case is, 'If it don't stink, don't stir it.'" Still others show that the "ineligible volunteer" file system could be ineffective, if not useless.

Technical skills may be quantifiable (which is why critics and audiences fixate on them), but the old sliding-scale grading system based on taste is, if not useless, a little beside the point.

The quirk – taken together with the addresses and the aliases and the holding companies that would seem unlikely if not useless for a magnate of his stature – may instead suggest a desire to obfuscate a simple truth about Durst's comings and goings since the reopening of the cold case into his wife's murder.

Drugs that once quashed the bugs have become, if not completely useless, then only sporadically effective.

The physicist responded to the review by calling the philosopher who wrote it "moronic" and arguing that philosophy, unlike physics, makes no progress and is rather boring, if not totally useless.

But other leading telomere scientists say such tests are premature, if not virtually useless.

And without millions of generous mouse-clickers, most of Web 2.0 is weakened, if not entirely useless.

What was dreamed up as a new method of human computer interaction was introduced to consumers in the form of a clunky, if not largely useless, PC input system that simply was not ready for primetime.