bootlesslyadv.
Without success or advantage; unsuccessfully; unprofitably; uselessly.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adverb] > unavailingly
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ineffectuallyc1610
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frustrately1632
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1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 15) 309 Bootelesly to employ al their paines in keeping themselues from outward pollution.
1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies II. 264 The hunters, returning bootlessly and sullenly from a large ‘cast’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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adv.1612- to do satisfaction
- to do scathe
- to do scorn
- to do service
- to do service as
- to do shame
- to do sharesies
- to do shipping
- to do shond
- to do shrift
- to do someone a bad turn
- to do someone a evil turn
- to do someone a friendship
- to do someone a good turn
- to do someone a ill turn
- to do someone shond
- to do someone to know
- to do something about
- to do something as one goes
- to do something as one goes along
- to do something for
- to do something for a laugh
- to do something for laughs
- to do something on one's head
- to do something standing on one's head