Disinclined to work or exertion.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
Producing no result or effect.
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Examples for "futile "
Examples for "futile "
1 Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile , he said.
2 But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile .
3 I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
4 Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
5 I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
1 Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual .
2 After an ineffectual resistance he fell in the commencement of the action.
3 I said something ineffectual , to salve my conscience, and we carried on.'
4 Why has the southern African regional body been, in comparison, so ineffectual ?
5 Syrinx gave him an ineffectual grimace of sympathy, unsure what to say.
1 Real violence was unavailing where the opponents were in a large majority.
2 His search was unavailing ; the mysterious reptile was not to be found.
3 What a contrast to the honest if unavailing efforts of the team.
4 They actually walked over the log in their unavailing search for him.
5 Hurstwood heard the details of the weary and unavailing search that evening.
1 There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose .
2 Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose , unadored.
3 Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4 There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose .
5 We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
6 Ignorant of business and entrepreneurship, they occupy the dead end, otiose and pension-orientated jobs they do.
7 His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.
8 But it happens to be otiose .
9 A historian may be a theist; but, so far as his work is concerned, this particular belief is otiose .
10 He told me he had only just got it, and he drifted away into otiose explanations of this fact.
11 Such a comparison is otiose .
12 If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency.
13 As a result, it is rather otiose to do the forecast before you have concluded what mitigation is possible, he said.
14 If one based one's view of his achievement on Licht, so often theatrically naive and musically otiose , the answer might well be yes.
15 Our voting system does not have any method of voting for or against any coalition combination, so this type of question is probably otiose .
16 It was very cordial, and it appealed directly, only the style was otiose , but in matters of the first importance style is a hindrance.
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