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| paltry |
small, trifling, or worthless. |
| refuse2 |
material considered to be waste or otherwise worthless; garbage; rubbish. [2 definitions] |
| riffraff |
persons considered to be worthless or disreputable; rabble. |
| rubber check |
a check that is worthless because the account it is drawn on lacks the funds to pay it; check that bounces. |
| rubbish |
worthless, discarded material or objects; garbage; trash. [2/3 definitions] |
| scrap1 |
to discard as worthless, useless, or unfeasible. [1/6 definitions] |
| scum |
any undesirable, polluting, or worthless material. [1/5 definitions] |
| scurvy |
of a person or animal, vile, contemptible, or worthless. [1/2 definitions] |
| set at naught |
to disregard or treat as worthless or insignificant. |
| shit |
(slang) a person or thing considered to be bad, worthless, disgusting, or the like. [1/11 definitions] |
| specious |
apparently true, genuine, or plausible, but actually worthless, as an argument or evidence. [1/2 definitions] |
| straw |
trifling or worthless. [1/7 definitions] |
| stuff |
(informal) worthless or insignificant things or ideas. [1/10 definitions] |
| stultify |
to render worthless or useless; cripple or nullify. |
| trash |
anything considered worthless or useless, and usu. discarded; rubbish; garbage. [2/7 definitions] |
| trashy |
of or like trash; worthless; sleazy; inferior. |
| valueless |
of no value; worthless; useless. |
| waste |
seen or rejected as useless or worthless. [1/18 definitions] |
| weed1 |
to remove as worthless or undesirable (often fol. by "out"). [1/6 definitions] |
| winnow |
to sift through, or separate out the desired or worthwhile from the undesired or worthless part of, as by critical analysis. [2/8 definitions] |
| wretched |
poor, inferior, or worthless. [1/4 definitions] |
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