1. To no avail
   "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"
   - in vain

See also: vain

• spoke
• spoken
• spoken communication
• spoken language
• spoken word
• spokeshave
• spokesman
• spokesperson
• spokeswoman
• spoliate
• spoliation
• spondaic
• spondaise
• spondaize
• spondee
• Spondias
• Spondias mombin
• Spondias purpurea
• spondylarthritis
• spondylitis
• spondylolisthesis
• spondylosis
• sponge
• sponge bag
• sponge bath