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 Translation for 'uselessness' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   uselessness | -
SYNO inutility | unusefulness | uselessness
ubrukelighet {m/f}uselessness
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Translation for 'uselessness' from English to Norwegian

uselessness
ubrukelighet {m/f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Club" made fun of the uselessness and blandness of Oprah's 2007 list by posting a feature called 'Oprah's Favorite Thing or Symptom of Clinical Depression?
  • Especially his convictions on the uselessness of religion were frowned upon by deist Robespierre and most other "moderate" Montagnards and they ultimately led to his execution.
  • The staff meanwhile eschew all modern correctional techniques, keeping the girls in their place by reinforcing their uselessness whenever possible, and failing to intervene in their most blatant acts of skulduggery.
  • The man's wife, Emma, calls from her bedroom. She is currently "bad again in the head" and whines constantly about her husband's utter uselessness. Everything is his fault.
  • Critic William Fulwiler writes that "'Polaris' is one of Lovecraft's most autobiographical stories, reflecting his feelings of guilt, frustration, and uselessness during World War I.

  • Shadrach's main character traits were uselessness, laziness, selfishness, hypocrisy and a dependency on alcohol, although he occasionally surprised his family with sensitivity or support.
  • Note that the lack of fresh releases does not imply inactivity or uselessness.
  • Some masters believe that "mushin" is the state where a person finally understands the uselessness of techniques and becomes truly free to move.
  • They are referred to as "dippy birds" and are perhaps used to symbolize insanity due to Romeril's opinion that they are insane for their uselessness and repeatability.
  • Antonyms for effectiveness include: uselessness, ineffectiveness.

  • He lived in a Kowloon squatter area, sharing with three friends a small accommodation they dubbed Wu Yong Tang (《无用堂》the "hall of uselessness") and living a life redolent of an Eastern "Scènes de la vie de bohème".
  • For him, the art of telling stories will always exist despite its growing uselessness.
  • In 2002, the Ludwigshafen-based urban planner Lars Piske described the station as sinking into uselessness and suggested that it had led to the loss of sales from Ludwigshafen to Mannheim.
  • Machiavelli is sometimes seen as the prototype of a modern empirical scientist, building generalizations from experience and historical facts, and emphasizing the uselessness of theorizing with the imagination.
  • Although they initially had a firm connection, Jae-won is a moocher whose uselessness (true even in comparison to Jung-eum) leads Jun-hyeok to re-evaluate Jae-won's character.

  • He finally admits his unhappiness and recognizes his uselessness to society.
  • "Traveller's Rest", published in 1965 in "New Worlds" magazine, introduced Masson to his audience; a study in the uselessness of war focusing on a soldier's perceptions of reality in combat, perhaps influenced by his own experiences twenty years earlier.
  • Bedrock has also been shown as having a volunteer fire department, although the episode in which the volunteer fire department was introduced suggests the uselessness of such a service in a city of stone buildings; instead, its members use it as an excuse to create a social club.
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