'very useless' is not correct and usable in written English.
The more appropriate phrase to use would be 'completely useless'. Example: His attempts at understanding the situation were completely useless.
"I think I make a very useless work and I'm very proud of it," he says, again.
The team plans to develop algorithms that will distinguish between more useful incivility and the very useless intolerance we encounter daily on Twitter.
In the questionnaire about Kanban (see Additional file 1) AR participants had to decide if they experience their Kanban knowledge as very beneficial = 1; a bit beneficial = 2; undecided = 3; a bit useless = 4; very useless = 5 to their work within the project and outside the project.
Truly, I was very useless.
Once, on the comment section of a survey, I wrote seven sentences in perfect backwards cursive (It's a very useless skill, but I'm proud of it for some reason).
Bad history is, very simply, useless history.
It was not the décor, which is shabby, or the service, which can be surly, and certainly not the menu, which is very nearly useless.
"Many times," he writes, "I have felt myself on the brink of a pessimistic conclusion as to the function of thinking, of intelligence, in society", even to the point of wondering whether "the role of critical intelligence", which he had exercised so often and at such costs to himself, might not be "dangerous, and very nearly useless".
"I choose this very upsetting term, useless, to highlight the fact that we are talking about useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system, not from a moral viewpoint," he says.
Second, used systematically, suggestion schemes are very far from useless.
