WordNet
nuisance value
n. the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal" [syn: awkwardness]
Usage examples of "nuisance value".
The Cryon office building was mere nuisance value--Howard Roark never had a chance at that.
For the two centuries after the loss of its portal, the sporadic Beyonder assaults on Ulubis - as a rule against the system's outskirts and military targets - had declined to such an extent they were barely even of nuisance value.
The Nuisance Value carried a human crew of twenty and a handful of small drones.