When, for instance, he watches kids in the playground of a local school, "so tiny and useless you couldn't believe they'd been let out of the sight of their mums and dads", it's hard to know whether to read that "useless" aspitying, predatory, amused or concerned.
This will make your notes hard to read and possibly useless later on.
The manual is fun to read but is fairly useless as a reference text.
There are those with E Ink screens (cheap, light, thin, no color, long battery life, great to read in bright sunlight, useless in the dark).
Until a late-Friday redesign, which made the numbers slightly larger and more legible, the signs were so badly designed and hard to read as to be all but useless.
What makes "A Series of Unfortunate Events" more than a simple praise-song to reading is its insistence on how useless, even dangerous, a book can be to those who refuse to read between the lines.
Some in the under-40 set complained about how the baked greens were impossible to read, and how their melon-headed drivers were useless on a course made firm and fast by the sun.
"It was useless to address the microphone as if it were a public meeting, or even to read it essays or leading articles," she wrote.
With about half of patients at the hospital unable to read or write, written instructions on prescriptions and medicine labels are virtually useless.
This useless project gave him unparalleled access to reading everything the writer produced.
