paperweight

IPA: pˈeɪpɝweɪt

A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
Any object used for this purpose.
(slang) A useless piece of equipment.

Examples of "paperweight" in Sentences

The paperweight is a great little something for father's day.
Derry's hand lay on it, a "paperweight" that did not move itself off at Blair's motion.
Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth-stone.
From that point on, the card has been a "paperweight" - literally-and those treasured photos were completely lost.
Ten million and you have a ubiquitous communications network into which your "paperweight" is now a hugely valuable doorway.
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
He swallowed down the rising inclination to be classical at the expense of good taste, and engulfed, on the top of it, as a kind of paperweight, a vast tumblerful of red Nepenthe wine.
The technical knowledge, training and expertise of a politician, as it relates to computers, software, licensing, or anything more complex than a paperweight, is basically that of a 6 year old child.
I find it interesting that 'paperweight' takes on the assertion that my pride in my caucasian heritage (Do you ask Latinos to define specifically which form of Latino pride they are partaking - Mexican, Cuban, etc.?) is 'purely a race-based assertion of superiority or merely' fear of losing a position of privilege '... exemplifying the bias that always seems to accompany any notion of' white pride '.