useless

Even if it wasn't crawling with commies, it was considered weak and useless in the fight against the Soviets with its diplomacy, treaties and whatnot.

The central tension in Millet’s work comes from the sense that we’re all doomed: She writes that “stories seemed more and more useless,” and references the old line about fiddling while Rome burns.

And if you’re not on a medical show, one of those things is pretty useless.

The guard, a man, hovers behind her as she watches the video feed, spouting useless information about body language that, surely, an educated and trained psychologist already knows.

While he couches language like "vampire" and "fraud" in false claims that he's talking about illegal payments, the accumulated impact of his rhetoric is to demonize elderly people as a useless burden on society.