uselessly
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The “Rock,” as it has sometime been referred to, sits uselessly in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, criminally underutilized as a tourist destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
“It’s uselessly costly and its storage is small and battery life even worse.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
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
My jaw flaps uselessly for a moment before I find words.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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