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UK
/pˈɔɪntləsli/
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ADVERB
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in a pointless manner
he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
How To Use pointlessly In A Sentence
- It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
- The plot, about police investigator Stewart trying to nab a criminal while being unlawfully pursued with daffy poetess Colbert in tow, is too lightweight — and the characters spend too much time pointlessly arguing — for me to care. Weekly Mishmash: April 18-24 : Scrubbles.net
- The pointlessly beautiful (beautifully pointless) game seems burdened with a vast weight of financial, cultural, political import.
- And it wouldn't even have to be some kind of pointlessly mandated socialism. MetaFilter Projects
- But the suggestion that scientists are pointlessly pursuing experiments and models that do not work is just wrong-headed.
- This was a gig of two halves, divided by a pointlessly long interval. Times, Sunday Times
- he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
- He took the bottle back off me, carefully screwing the top back on and placing it, pointlessly empty and discardable into his jacket pocket.
- Coolmore pacemaker Ice Dancer set a pointlessly fast gallop and was ignored. Times, Sunday Times
- At times, though, the album meanders pointlessly and becomes slow and uninspired.