Word: purposelessly
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...well-known how Mr. Mencken sticks stray figurative pins into the viscera of the age. And in the pricking he seems sometimes to follow an aimless aim; which is perfectly all right because he himself will retort that most purposes are eminent purposeless. And what he says he believes to be true. That all too human adjective belies his paradox...
...conclude that millions of dollars appropriated by Congress during the past few years for this development program have been squandered in a purposeless, meaningless, endless experimental orgy. Surely it is not too much to expect that the millions spent should have purchased more than is in evidence in tangible results...
...rights in rejecting the committee's recommendation, and that their decision was based partly on the representations of so noted a critic as Dr. Brander Matthews, the necessity for Professor Phelps' disclosures is not immediately apparent. They have been the occasion of much recriminatory comment, both undignified and quite purposeless, which might have been avoided by the maintenance of diplomatic and at the same time a thoroughly honest silence...
Government's taxation increase of 20% (TIME, Jan. 28). He stated that the Government would merely succeed in raising the cost of living and so place a purposeless additional burden upon the taxpayer...
...known what fine things lay ahead how much better would have been our beginning. And yet how were we to tell? How were we to know when we started our beginners' Latin or Greek, studying the dullest sort of composition, of the glories of classic thought and poetry. This purposeless choice and following of our elementary courses can account for more wasted time than any one factor in our academic training...