Unprofitable Definition

Unprofitable Sentence Examples

• The post was unprofitable, and Wagner's life at this period was very unsettled.

• Under the guidance of Pericles the Athenians renounced the unprofitable rivalry with Sparta and Persia, and devoted themselves to the consolidation and judicious extension of their maritime influence.

• I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life."

• The peasant got rid of a hateful drudgery which not only took up his time and means in an unprofitable manner, but placed him under the rough control and the arbitrary discipline of stewards or reeves and gave occasion to all sorts of fines and extortions.

• In each case, rapidly increasing freight charges made the projects unprofitable.