vainlyadverb
uk/ˈveɪn.li/us/ˈveɪn.li/unsuccessfully:
He tried vainly to make them listen.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- unwieldy
- use
- useless
- vain
- what good is ... idiom
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Unsuccessful (people and things)