next to useless

For he insisted that anything less was next to useless.

Divided, their forces and efforts would be next to useless.

As it stands, I'd suggest this information is next to useless.

They were next to useless in their present state.

Once there, his role as imposter was next to useless.

Drugs killed the brain or left it twisted, next to useless.

If they got back to the front lines too early, however, they were next to useless.

His knives were next to useless against such a foe.

They called his lectures next to useless, straight out of the textbook.

On earth it was next to useless, because any normal person had many times the creative intelligence of this program.

You're all next to useless, you men," she complained and started for the door.

It was next to useless at that range anyway.

Imps are hard to kill but next to useless for offense.

Kris had to stop: her wrist ached and was next to useless.

Without absolute reliability, the systems were next to useless.

She was next to useless at tracking, but she could organize a drive.

In the next battle, ship number sixteen would be next to useless.

And dart guns were going to be next to useless if Candy was still in that frenzy.

So she tried thirty centimetres, and then everything up to one meter, which of course was next to useless in public.

The pay of a teacher, next to useless money and paper pushers, is shamefully low already.

But with sheets of rock dust and larger debris, the naked eye was next to useless.

The light pellets were next to useless against vehicles or targets a hundred yards away, however.

"I've got a parabolic, but it's no good through walls and next to useless with a window.

The boy is next to useless, and you're exhausted."