Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ineffectual manner; without effect; in vain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Without effect; in vain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
ineffectual manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an ineffectual manner
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Examples
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But all I manage, completely ineffectually, is “Oh … his penis … his penis!”
Snakes And Snails And Puppy Dog’s Tails | Her Bad Mother 2008
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Matt: If you can’t take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and complain ineffectually about the inadequacy of their economic policies anyway, you don’t belong in the liberal blogosphere.
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* and by "ineffectually" i mean "despite the fact that he SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FACE he will probably not die, according to sources."
brief, disjointed, cherie's-really-sleepy friday update moriarty6 2004
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This 'cold' war has been working too slowly and ineffectually; perhaps it is time to think about 'hot' alternatives.
Bob Savage: Time for a More Thoughtful Foreign Policy in Iran and Syria Bob Savage 2012
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This 'cold' war has been working too slowly and ineffectually; perhaps it is time to think about 'hot' alternatives.
Bob Savage: Time for a More Thoughtful Foreign Policy in Iran and Syria Bob Savage 2012
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America's rabid rightwingers, from which this stench largely may have emanated, appear nourished by it, while decent Americans are retching ineffectually.
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She watched Kit moving ahead with Gabriel at her side talking very fast and trying ineffectually to steer her away from the gory Annas.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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She watched Kit moving ahead with Gabriel at her side talking very fast and trying ineffectually to steer her away from the gory Annas.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Causing terrible suffering unnecessarily, ineffectually and when you should know better.
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If the past two years are anything to go by we should be flailing ineffectually in mounds of snow by now.
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