pointlessly's Usage Examples:

French verb chicaner, which means "to create difficulties" or "to dispute pointlessly", "quibble", which is also the root of the English noun chicanery.

Shulgin describes his feelings while on a low dose of this drug as "pointlessly stoned", although at a higher dose of 20 mg he says it is "quite intense".

but in reality he is arrogant and a selfish flirt who spends his money pointlessly.

the bogie was invented in the United States, rendering Arnoux's system pointlessly complicated.

describing any activity where items or people are repeatedly and usually pointlessly shuffled among various locations or positions.

kind of people are these? Do they ever think, or do they only shuffle pointlessly over the earth?" The story was not published in Kafka's lifetime.

in the conditional tense, a maze of lines that lead nowhere at all, a pointlessly remarkable achievement.

De zon gaat zinloos onder, morgen moet zij toch weer op (The sun sets pointlessly, it has got to rise again tomorrow anyway) (1990) Dat heeft zo'n jongen.

rise to the Russian word "кутерьма" (kuter'ma), meaning "running around pointlessly".

" Justin Chang of Variety described it as "By turns pointless and pointlessly mean-spirited.

For three weeks he pointlessly besieged the city before deciding to continue on to Antioch.

The Sun-Sentinel criticized the film as "pointlessly violent" and stated that "[t]he only people who should be more ashamed.

The lyrics in the first verse are: "Trying pointlessly to understand, having nothing to say, just shadows, what remained boxed.

the battle turned at dusk, when Zieten's columns, who had been engaged pointlessly with Lacy, finally launched a major assault.

Burns Monument Centre described it as a "forced, clumpy monstrosity with pointlessly random rooves".

[but] everyone seems to be scurrying pointlessly about just to keep busy.

of Falstaff's plan to seduce his wife; he manages to be both curt and pointlessly repetitive, with additional obscure assertions: He loves your wife.

was critical of De Niro's performance saying "This could be the most pointlessly grotesque performance of De Niro's career; it's flabbergastingly unfunny.

review and wrote, "The movie starts out comically bizarre and becomes pointlessly violent, driven by behavior and characters so far outside the norm that.

He is just a fellow with a mean disposition—a pointlessly diabolic wretch.