Dead
Profitable
Profitable adjective - Yielding material gain or profit.
Usage example: profitable speculation on the stock market
Dead is an antonym for profitable.
Both words in one sentence
- Sixkill (2011): Jumbo Nelson is one of the most profitable movie stars on the planet, and when a dead girl is found in his bed, his lawyer brings Spenser aboard to help the investigation.
Source: Literature / Spenser -
Dead Artists Are Better: Picasso was already a millionaire during his lifetime, but after his death his work become more profitable than before.
Source: Creator / Pablo Picasso -
The poet Martin Silenus, finally realizing that his profitable Dying Earth series of booksnote Yes, the title is a tribute to Jack Vance has become a brain-dead Cliché Storm, decides to just kill the thing off completely and utterly so that he can search for his lost muse and work on real poetry.
Source: Literature / Hyperion Cantos
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