uselessly

From useless + -ly.

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

uselessly (comparative more uselessly, superlative most uselessly)

1. In a useless manner.
2. To no useful purpose.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 213:

     Mr. Civil, warned and guided by distant axe-whangs, had found them, and had been unsparing in his condemnation of Jim's stupid waste of time in coming an unnecessary mile to chop down a tree uselessly far away.