vainly

/vˈe‍ɪnli/

/ˈveɪnɫi/

[adverb]

vainly

[ADVERB]

in a way that does not produce any successful or useful outcome

synonyms : in vain

Examples

1. Who had driven himself to despair, vainly trying to master an infinite not universive knowledge in a finite life time.

2. Now they went head to head when Bryan vainly accepted Darrow's challenge to testify to his faith on the witness stand as a bible expert.

3. [Narrator] Then vainly requests something a little more flattering.

4. And frantic mad with evermore unrest, my thoughts and my discourse as mad men's are, at random from the truth vainly expressed, for I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright.