not worth a curse en · ADJ
Etymology
Corrupted from earlier not worth a cress.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Worthless.
“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
scummy · cruddy · vain · triobolar · not worth a dime · not worth hell room · good-for-nothing · tripy · rubbishly · bastardly · putid · tenth-rate · unappreciated · dreckish · punk · drecky · scabbed · strawlike · cocking · chaffy · no good / no-good · shitey · valueless · mouldy · pissass · cullionly · unvaluable · naughty · for the birds · suckworthy · cacky · good-for-naught · screwy · not worth a farthing · goodless · mucid · draffy · not worth a nickel · fucking · garbagey · draffish · not worth a damn · nonvaluable · crapalicious · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · two-bit · no-account · jabberwocky · shitty-ass · of no value · not worth a cent · not worth a brass farthing · worthless · not worth a penny · not worth a plug nickel · shand · shitstained · shit · worth nothing · wutless · junky · duffing · not worth salt · sorry-ass · ineffectual · sixpenny · not worth a whistle · not worth a curse · rubbishy · not worth a cress · toshy · nought · invaluable · blown · not worth a Continental · trinkety