vain

As a high school student, Heiya was vain and selfish, but she’s tested as soon as she enters the Borderlands and only ends up surviving after injuring her leg, which is amputated.

We call for water and it's all in vain.

Decisions being taken in the coming weeks could determine whether that huge waste of public money has all been in vain.

Harley is a rescue hound, of indeterminate but clearly mixed breed, who is given to leaping in the air to snap at moths and making vain but enthusiastic attempts to catch lizards.

Geoff: Brilliant start but we need to win our home games or its all in vain.