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View definitions for ineffectually

ineffectually

adverb as in ineffectively

adverb as in vainly

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We passed several large sting-rays asleep on the surface of the sea, which our people ineffectually endeavoured to harpoon.

I tried to stanch it with my waistband, but ineffectually; it relieved him for a moment, and he asked for water.

I found myself protesting ineffectually against her fixed conviction.

The light of a shrunken sun shone down coldly and ineffectually upon a jagged and distorted landscape.

So much against his will had the affair occurred, that he had repeatedly but ineffectually commanded his men to desist.

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

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