Futile — TV quiz show

Usage examples of pointless.

She chewed her lower lip as a million places sprang to mind, bat driving aimlessly around was pointless.

In the dingy little dining-room of the Albergo Monte Gazza, a mountain inn miles from anywhere, situation arduous for walkers and pointless for cars, tariff humanely adjusted to the purses of the penniless, his poise and finish made him a grotesque.

And if he had to start with pointless exercises on axolotls, he would do so.

Which had been a pointless order, when a score of undressed bibb is were hobbling down the highway with silver bells tied to their wrists and even the officers were staring at them like starving men seeing a plate of roast beef.

Cerise frowned more deeply, wondering exactly what Coigne wanted, and shook speculation away as pointless.

The pathetic men, the frumpy women, the filthy childreneven some pointless girls.

They made pointless plans, compared notes, frantically raced down to Sunter, to Echomire and Ludmead, to Kelltree and Mog Hill, all the way to Badside, over the river to Brock Marsh, to West Gidd and Griss Fell and Murkside and Saltpetre.

She refuses the swimming pool, the quoits, the badminton, the endless, pointless games.

She tried to still some of the anger, the pointless, unnavigable anger inside her.

And it was this Mercile confronted, this intolerable and pointless, relentlessly gouging fire, howling on inside the unobliterated shell.

After I had made him answer a few more annoyingly pointless questions, I wiped his face with a damp cloth, let him rinse his mouth with well-watered wine, and tucked him in again.

It may be de rigueur in academic circles to moan about the myth of Sisyphus and the pointless futility of human existence, but such an attitude is antithetical to the principles of science fiction.

Sisyphus and the pointless futility of human existence, but such an attitude is antithetical to the principles of science fiction.

In all likelihood, the Autocrat had saved dozens of lives this day by blotting out the leaders in this pointless fight.

More important, however, is that the transfer would improve commerce between the Belt and the Triplanetary population, defusing the more volatile Belter Autarchists, who view trade with Triplanetary as both expensive and pointless.