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Of no practical value
Answer for the clue "Of no practical value ", 4 letters:
moot
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Word definitions for moot in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"assembly of freemen," mid-12c., from Old English gemot "meeting" (especially of freemen, to discuss community affairs or mete justice), "society, assembly, council," from Proto-Germanic *ga-motan (compare Old Low Frankish muot "encounter," Middle Dutch ...
Usage examples of moot.
That it was in the milliamp range, rather than the five hundred amps required by the engines, became moot.
It seemed that with everything going on, the Ministry of Misdirection had become moot.
He had used his veto twice in the research and development council, never with this minister of Works, although his predecessor had done it a record eighteen times on the never-completed Transmontane Highway, which was now, since the rail link, a moot point.
Michael had put the whole kibosh on the prom, so it was kind of a moot point.
His name was Draferth and, unusually for the Outer Moot, he was a staunch and raucous member of the Strivers Faction.
The Yabban government was informed as soon as the thawing was well enough along that stopping it would have been a moot point.
The Great Moot of the Cymrian Council had once been a glacial lake, formed by the freezing and thawing of ice on the mountain faces of the Teeth when they were young.
The sound was not just a ripple, but a palpability, drawing in, as if the Moot had become a huge maw, a wyrm anglerfish draw ing every particle in.
Whether a missionary, Jesuit, or Jansenist, Protestant, Catholic, or Mohammedan, does well in forcing his own mode of life and faith on those who live a happier, freer life than any his instructor can hold out to them is a moot point.
If Maga could be distracted, she might change her mind another day and forget about these suggestions as if they had never been mooted.
Gorde on the other side of the millstream fell from fifty to thirty shillings, Mesewelle up the river fell by half and even Flesching farther away, where the hundred moots had been held, was almost as bad.
His name was Draferth and, unusually for the Outer Moot, he was a staunch and raucous member of the Strivers Faction.
As for the interminable new laws that the Moot passed, the Wardens and the local Watches, which served in lieu of the Wardens in the smaller towns and villages, generally ignored them, confining themselves to their long-established role of ensuring that the wilder elements of society were kept quiet, one way or another, so that the bulk of the people could get on with their lives in peace.
Civilian officers of the Moot, of all ranks, were generally despised by the Wardens but while adults might expect some surliness or outright sneers, Pages could usually look to more physical humiliation.
Under your capable leadership, the Wardens fulfil their duties admirably, leaving the Moot free of disturbance to fulfil its duties in turn.