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• r  in a pointless manner
  he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery

• It's partly this drafting skill and design sense that make it hard to dismiss "Sock Monkey" as something pointlessly ironic.
• I wanted to be away from my university in Delhi, where I was studyingpointlessly, I thoughtfor a degree in English.
• Proletarian clientele vie for shabby seats at shared tables as ceiling fans whir and an ancient wall clock keeps time rather pointlessly, given that it's forever 1962 at the .

News & Articles

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• Best Bets
  Film New This Week: 2 Guns (**1/2 out of four stars) Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington team up in this slam-bang adaptation of the comic book about dueling undercover agents, dealing with a crazed Mexican drug lord and their own crooked bosses. The two stars riff, wrestle, and crack wise as if they genuinely enjoy each other's company, but pointlessly nasty violence taints their chemistry ...
  Aug. 4, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Duncan McNeil in Scotsman
  The tragic case of Damian Muir, pointlessly and brutally murdered by a known criminal last July, has raised some hard questions for the justice system,said Mr McNeil. "No-one in a democracy wants political interference in the judicial...
• Rowan Williams in BBC News
  In a moving sermon Dr Rowan Williams said: "We are here grieving, after all, because those who so pointlessly and terribly died were, each one of them, precious, non-replaceable".
• Elfriede Jelinek in The Age
  As Jelinek writes in Greed: "Love doesn't pull down barriers, as is often said, it builds them up, so that behind them people learn to wait and are not always pointlessly kicking the iron banisters."