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uselessly

  • a word derived from useless.
    useless
    adjective
    of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile.

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I grasp uselessly at the Dragon and Fröjda utensils zip-tied to the display wall at Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

“It’s uselessly costly and its storage is small and battery life even worse.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

After spending millions in legal fees to fight uselessly against name, image and likeness reform, this is a worthy cause.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 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

She pushed uselessly at her disheveled hair in vague imitation of one of her mother’s gestures and twisted to see if her dress were torn.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov