Definition of "worthlessness"

This sort of fat instead of indicating health points to disease. This general teaching as to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of practitioners for about twenty-five years.

1905, Carry Nation, chapter 28, in The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation‎, archived from the original on 11 August 2014