a. (UN-1 7.)
Hence, in recent use, unremuneratively, -ness.
1854. Poultry Chron., I. 26/2. Evidence that the raising of poultry was by no means the unremunerative folly idlers supposed it to be.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 120. A girl is considered an expense and unremunerative.