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Meanings of bootless in English

Unproductive of success.

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Examples for "vain"
1
I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
2
They organize in vain; they protest in vain; they appeal in vain.
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
3
I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain.
Black house
4
Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
5
Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
1
Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile, he said.
Reuters
2
But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile.
The Irish Times
3
I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
The Guardian
4
Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
The Irish Times
5
I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
And the rat laughed
1
Yet, each search over the course of almost two years proved fruitless.
The South African
2
Fighting him on land is fruitless, he just slips back to sea.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
3
But all efforts to find their family and their home proved fruitless.
The Guardian
4
An unprecedented multinational search for the jet has so far proved fruitless.
Reuters
5
That too was a fruitless effort; it had no intention of compliance.
The Hellbound Heart
1
Luke Donald's diamond-patterned sleeveless jumpers are a throwback to older fashion days.
The Irish Times
2
Loose-fitting women's tops rendered in natural fibers were sleeveless and seemingly carefree.
Reuters
3
She soon peeled away two layers to reveal a sleeveless orange top.
Reuters
4
She was wearing nothing but her panties and a sleeveless baby-doll nightgown.
The irresistible henry house
5
The long, sleeveless pale-blue satiny dress she wore looked like a nightgown.
Black Deutschland
Usage of bootless in English
1
But the son of Saturn afflicts me with bootless wranglings and strife.
The Iliad
2
The old Squire never learned of Halstead's bootless experiment in forced feeding.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
3
Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism.
Oriental Religions and Christianity / A Course of Lectures Deliv...
4
Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.
The Invisible Man
5
Then came a sound as of bootless feet pressing the stairs stealthily!
The Freelands
6
A week ago such an act would have been bootless utopianism.
The Guardian
7
The cold iron stirrups froze and cut the hunter's bootless feet.
The Last of the Plainsmen
8
To walk gloveless and bootless and need sunblock on my face.
206 Bones
9
Dad was in the lead, and poor Joe, bare-shinned and bootless, in the rear.
On Our Selection
10
The answer proved, like all the others, unsatisfactory and bootless.
The Bravo: A Tale
11
The oath he swore was bootless, but it made Dolon more keen on going.
The Iliad
12
And he recalled his own bootless wickedness and underhand intrigues.
The Fortune of the Rougons
13
It was bootless, showing feet that were quite human except for the talon-like toenails.
The Long War
14
Yes, bootless was it to have expected anything from such a source as that.
Through Russia
15
You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
16
Atlanta's struggle against the restless Sherman has been only wasted valor, a bootless sacrifice.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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