useless
adjective
of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile.
uselessly
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a word derived from
useless.
Example Sentences
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“Don’t use stalker as a verb,” says Cole, clinging uselessly onto a handrail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Meanwhile, in some intellectual quarters, “humanism” is seen as a mask for elitism, bourgeois complacency or worse — when it isn’t dismissed entirely as a uselessly squishy concept.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
As in conventional power plants, much of the heat produced will dissipate uselessly rather than transfer to the water that turns into steam to drive a turbine.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
And after they bounce around uselessly, they're hoping to swindle more of their obscenely rich friends into doing the same.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2021
Khrazz cursed and turned a high cut into a low one, slipping past the old knight’s blade for once, only to have his blow scrape uselessly off a white steel greave.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
