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fruitless
vs
not worth a curse
fruitless
adj
Unproductive, useless.
Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.
Bearing no fruit; barren.
not worth a curse
adj
Worthless.
How often have the words
fruitless
and
not worth a curse
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)