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synonyms for bootless

  • fruitless
  • futile
  • idle
  • ineffectual
  • unavailing
  • vain
  • worthless
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How to use bootless in a sentence

A bootless voyage they were making, since the fair had been abruptly broken up at its outset.
MICHAEL STROGOFFJULES VERNE
We scarcely dared to whisper, or to tip-toe across the workshop on bootless feet.
EASTERN NIGHTS - AND FLIGHTSALAN BOTT
Bootless, hatless, and coatless men often dashed to assembly sounded by the “thump, thump of the big drums.”
MANASSES (BULL RUN) NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK-VIRGINIAFRANCIS F. WILSHIN
Many slips and falls had they on the frozen ice and slippery roads; yet was it all but a bootless chace.
A LEGEND OF READING ABBEYCHARLES MACFARLANE
How success in that enterprise might have suggested or shaped a further course of aggression, it is now bootless to conjecture.
THE FELON'S TRACKMICHAEL DOHENY
Davis was partly responsible, for he promptly sent him out of the country on the bootless English mission.
THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACYNATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON
Wring not your hands, 'tis bootless; use the means That may preserve you.
THE PLAYS OF PHILIP MASSINGERPHILIP MASSINGER
The bootless love that blindly strives for the welfare of the loved ones!
A WORD TO WOMENMRS. C. E. HUMPHRY
At thy age all is viewed in colors of gold, or life is rendered bootless, because we are thwarted in our ill-digested wishes.
THE BRAVOJ. FENIMORE COOPER
In the grey dawn two hatless and bootless young men came stumbling down into the laager.
WITH STEYN AND DE WETPHILIP PIENAAR
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