little purpose

Synonyms

vainly unnecessarily needlessly

Examples

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose. Mark Kingwell

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill? John Ensign

It was to little purpose to excuse the matter, by saying, that the badness of the Verses was a kind of Testimony that they were made by a God, who nobly scorn'd to be tyed up to rules and to be confined to the Beauty of a Style. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

1943. If thou canst not find Tranquility in thyself; 'twill be to little Purpose to seek it anywhere else. Thomas Fuller (writer)

Words in the phrase

little purpose

Close letter words and terms

little proof little prospect little puppy little pussycat little puzzle little quemoy