uselessly
Example Sentences
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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
Even anger is just more abject excess, to be flushed away uselessly and memorialized only by a shiver of disgust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 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
Leicester had been good value up until then, with Spurs uncharacteristically nervous, but with Chalmers reduced to hobbling uselessly on the left wing, defeat was almost inevitable.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2021
His instruments, too, he fixed to the framework with close attention, even the compass, whose needle was swinging around the dial quite uselessly.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
