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Uselessly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a useless manner.
  2. 2
    To no useful purpose.

    "Mr. Civil, warned and guided by distant axe-whangs, had found them, and had been unsparing in his condemnation of Jim's stupid waste of time in coming an unnecessary mile to chop down a tree uselessly far away."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a useless manner wordnet

Etymology

From useless + -ly.

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