The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bootlessly
Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From Boot profit.]
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
success.
--Chaucer.
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
bootlessly
adv. In a bootless manner.
Usage examples of "bootlessly".
Do you (a) struggle bootlessly until you sink and drown, (b) scream until someone rescues you, or (c) dog-paddle to the nearest floating object and wait calmly for your mistress to resolve the difficulty?
He intended to unlimber the part of him which had longed so bootlessly for Her Nibs these last three weeks and use it to hose down their dead faces.