The phrase "useless life" can be considered correct and usable in written English, but it may have a negative connotation and should be used carefully.
It can be used to describe a person's existence or actions that are deemed pointless or without purpose. Example: "After losing his job and his family, John felt like he was living a useless life with no hope for the future."
In baptism he found complete release from the sinful and useless life he believed he had led hitherto.
For more than a few years of my useless life, I have devoted myself to this enterprise, sitting in libraries and government offices even.
He achieved his greatest popularity, however, with La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1938; "The Useless Life of Pito Pérez"), a picaresque novel chronicling the comic adventures of Pito Pérez, who reappeared in Algunas cosillas de Pito Pérez (1945; "Some Little Things About Pito Pérez").
After all these years, Sirhan still seems to believe that the heinous crime of murder makes a man a "hero," to quote his fears for his useless life if he is forced into a general prison population.
I also would like to quote the German writer Goethe, who said "A useless life is an early death".
"Johann W. von Goethe once said, 'A useless life is an early death".
They were untethered from useless, life-prolonging machinery and allowed to die quietly.
Granted, Pheromone Labs' robotic finger is much less intense than this seemingly useless life-sized robotic hand, but then again the automatic picture taker actually has purpose.
Indeed, as the philosopher George Santayana said: "Music is useless, as life is"; but it's precisely our awareness of the "uselessness" of life that make us want to struggle to give it purpose and to give that purpose meaning.
Spiderman was my favourite, because Peter Parker was so useless in real life.
The controversy follows the revelations from the scientist's sister Maxine that he could be "useless" in everyday life.
