But an implicit premise is that only worthless things are given away freely.

"It is a worthless thing, except for the music it makes."

"I wanted to tell you what a worthless thing you are."

She appeared a common thing, utterly worthless, not even interesting.

Nobody could see beyond that to the worthless thing inside.

Not even any of the other worthless things that were taken.

Every worthless thing had been left in the bathroom.

Take this worthless thing and cast it into the sea.

I think it is a completely worthless thing, because Europe was meant to be the leading knowledge-based society by 2010.

"Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful," she said.