not worth a curse

adjective

Worthless.

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Meanings

adjectivenot worth a curse (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWorthless.

    “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

    1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41

    Synonyms: bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWorthless.

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not worth a tinker's cursenot worth hell room

Origin

Corrupted from earlier not worth a cress.

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APA

not worth a curse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20worth%20a%20curse

MLA

“not worth a curse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20worth%20a%20curse. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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