Which preposition to use with unprofitable

to Occurrences 14%

A revolution that merely substituted one Eastern power for another would have been utterly barren and unprofitable to mankind.

for Occurrences 5%

Suggestions not unprofitable for these later days lurk in these traits of Elia the student and critic.

as Occurrences 4%

There is no business so unprofitable as waiting for dead men's money.

of Occurrences 3%

One of the most unprofitable of God's creatures, being as he is a thing put clean beside the right use; made fit for the cart and the flail, and by mischance entangled amongst books and papers.

than Occurrences 3%

But nothing would be more unprofitable than a discussion in which Homer and Milton compete for supremacy of genius.

in Occurrences 2%

" For this reason, as the nations of the world are now trying in a cosmic form and under similar conditions to do that which the founders of the American Republic in 1787 did in a microcosmic form, a short narration of that earlier achievement may not be unprofitable in this day and generation, when we are blindly groping towards some common basis for international co-ordination.

Which preposition to use with  unprofitable