Profitable
Profitable adjective - Yielding material gain or profit.
Usage example: profitable speculation on the stock market
Useless
Useless adjective - Producing no results.
Usage example: a useless attempt to reach an agreement
Both words in one sentence
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Turning a few hundred of those useless quartzite rocks lying around into A Present From Boatmurdered +quartzite mugs+ can be very profitable.
Source: Vendor Trash -
Reed Richards Is Useless: Pierce's dad is perplexed about why John doesn't use his powers, namely teleportation, to run a profitable business.
Source: Literature / The Abandon Trilogy -
However, this was also turned on its head when the developers later admitted it was designed to be a nostalgic nod to old-school games, and it was admittedly useless as copy protection (seeing as the game was massively profitable anyway).
Source: Copy Protection
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