Crossword clues for uselessly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Useless \Use"less\, a. Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
Not to sit idle with so great a gift
Useless, and thence ridiculous.
--Milton.
Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual.
Usage: Useless, Fruitless, Ineffectual. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded.
Useless are all words
Till you have writ ``performance'' with your
swords.
The other is for waiving.
--Beau. & Fl.
Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation
to this controversy, as being either needless or
fruitless.
--Waterland.
Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake
as never man spake, was ineffectual to many.
--Bp.
Stillingfleet.
[1913 Webster] -- Use"less*ly, adv. --
Use"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a useless manner. 2 To no useful purpose.
WordNet
adv. in a useless manner; "the furniture was sitting around uselessly" [ant: usefully]
Usage examples of "uselessly".
But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the wood.
Aunt Noonan was secretive, hiding her clairvoyance from the people of Apple Springs, uselessly I suspect, although they certainly always knew about me.
Indeed, in these three words was summed up so much fatigue uselessly expended, so much energy producing no results, that somewhat of anger mingled with the discomfiture of Cyrus Harding and his companions.
Hume, however, so mixed up the subject with the Russo-Dutch loan, that his resolutions as far as regarded Cracow were impracticable, and he withdrew them after uselessly occupying the time of the house by a long debate.
The fifty or so people in the chamber milled about uselessly, but Pite and another section leader were gradually whipping them into shape.
It was where they had spent the hours of the previous day uselessly scrabbling for plans.
All his years of working and waiting wexe now gone uselessly, all because he had flown.
Donovan rolled ponderously onto his back, his hand flopping uselessly in the sand, and Maslin stared into the burned and bloody mass that had been a face.
Ceralt with effort, seating himself upon the grass so that he might look down upon me where I lay beneath the bulk of Mehrayn, my cheek and body to the damp of the grass, striving uselessly against the strength of the male who held me.
She was the conduit through which his energies rushed uselessly into a shoreless sea.
Spermwhale Whalen, staggering forward and sitting on the grass next to the simpering redhead who now had his hands folded uselessly in his lap, his brain marinated.
Aren, where it shall be hoarded uselessly until such time as Korbolo Dom breaches the gates, and so you end up paying him for the privilege of slaughtering you.
Fire-main pressure spouted uselessly from a ruptured line and the hoses would not fill.
For a moment the sail trembled and twisted uselessly and the sailboat fell toward the worldship, caught by its gravity.
Men from the Bucephalas were already being hustled into the boats, with the others, including their captain, standing uselessly in the face of the marine bayonets.