beside the point vs useless

beside the point

adj
  • Irrelevant, moot. 

adv
  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

useless

adj
  • Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). 

  • Unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting. 

  • Without use or possibility to be used. 

  • Good-for-nothing; not dependable. 

How often have the words beside the point and useless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )