unprofitable
/ʌnˈpɹɑf.ɪ.təbl̩/ adjective C2- Not making a profit. · Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.
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Do you, while receiving benefits from me and resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and unprofitable?”
To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.
He had found the law a most unprofitable study, and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present him to the living in question--of which he trusted there could be little doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father’s intentions.
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