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pointless

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“You think I haven’t been struggling? That I haven’t been angry at the world for taking her from me? That my life hasn’t felt empty and pointless without her around?”

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His cases involved “endless and seemingly pointless fighting,” with a focus just about money, he says.

If this is the best quality England can get, increasing the quantity would have been pointless.

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It was the longest in U.S. history, 43 days, and utterly pointless.

In a typically pointless interlude, he plays a blind Irish priest, but doesn’t fool anyone long enough to yield a solid gag.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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