uselessly
- r in a useless manner
the furniture was sitting around uselessly
- She shouldered the task of patiently hearing out each group's concerns and turning them into a final product that could garner broad support without being uselessly watered down or .
- Gustafson's booted right foot dangled uselessly, attached only by his leg's calf muscles.
- He has walked with a cane, his right hand dangling uselessly at his side, ever since a small bomb inside a tape recorder went off as he was giving a Friday prayer sermon in 1981.