pointlessly
Adverb
Meaning
Without point.
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Do you see us slavering for revenge, that most pointlessly biological of imperatives?
She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.
he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
A coarse, ugly, pointlessly action-packed reminder that every modestly sharp and amusing property must eventually be converted, by the commercial logic of Hollywood, into a soul-killing cash grab.