(a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elkjær was running down the left wing with the ball when he lost his right boot; he kept running and ended up shooting home with his bootless right foot.
(2) But it would be remiss of us to forget the Indian national team, who qualified for the 1950 World Cup finals with their entire team going bootless.
Fruitless
Definition:
(a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
(a.) Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
(2) Gone would be the system of semi-competition, of backroom bundles that force you to pay for channels and programming you wouldn't watch – even if it was the only thing available, like when you turn off the TV after a long, fruitless Netflix scroll.
(3) Her support dissipated in a fruitless search for a site.
(4) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
(5) That will not be the case this week when trade ministers from 159 countries meet in Bali in the hopes of salvaging something from 12 years of so far fruitless talks.
(6) Once when I was fruitlessly engaged on this bag non-opening, someone came up to me, and I barked: “I can do it myself thank you.” He was just collecting the umbrella he’d left behind.
(7) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(8) We seem to spend time protesting loudly and fruitlessly about the actions of our enemies – whom we are actually unable to influence – while standing by as our so-called “friends” get away with officially sanctioned crimes, torture and injustice.
(9) Smears made from purulent discharges do not always show the organism and microbiological culture may likewise prove fruitless.
(10) Duped by Mexico’s mafia: Guatemalan couple fall victim to border gang Read more After four years of fruitless appeals she entered the church on 7 August to escape a final deportation order that took effect the following day.
(11) But I can help you.” “We can help you shave off a couple years of fruitless effort,” Susie added.
(12) In a statement that contained little contrition for putting investors, staff and customers through a fruitless two weeks, Duch-Pedersen insisted that shareholders were continuing to "express their overwhelming support for the standalone G4S business and its management".
(13) Efforts at reducing demand have been similarly fruitless.
(14) The project faces huge opposition from Greenpeace and other environmental groups that hoped the company would end its search for oil, which has so far been fruitless.
(15) The petitions, banners, town hall meetings and political visits proved to be fruitless.
(16) To date fruitless efforts have been carried out to find a cryoprotectant for the spermatozoa membranes and glycerol still continues to be used despite its harmful effects to the membranes.
(17) And I sort of thought I'd bought my freedom in that way") and hitchhiked through Europe, looking, fruitlessly, for an idea of what to do.
(18) He said there had been “more than 300 violations” of the truce since last weekend, when it was supposed to begin, and warned that the EU is “reaching a point when further diplomatic efforts will be fruitless unless credibly backed up by further action”.
(19) A 41-year-old man suffering from an actinomyces infection of the cornea of his right eye, was treated unsuccessfully with antibiotics especially intensive local and systematic therapy with penicillin, paracentesis of the anterior chamber with penicillin irrigation, and cautery of the corneal ulcer were fruitless.
(20) Much of the money has been squandered on a fruitless search for cancer "cures."