单词 | purposelessly |
释义 | purposelessly (once / 196989 pages) adv WORD FAMILY purposeless: purposelessly, purposelessness+/purpose: multipurpose, purposed, purposeful, purposeless, purposes, purposing/purposeful: purposefully, purposefulness/purposelessness: purposelessnesses USAGE EXAMPLESHe was found dressed in bear-skins, a young man, but with snow-white hair and beard, wandering purposelessly on the ice, and taken on board. Stables, Gordon, The Cruise of the Snowbird—A Story...(2011) The player thus addressed, who had been idling purposelessly near the centre of the stage, looked up with a face of blank surprise. Vance, Louis Joseph, Joan Thursday(2011) She walks purposelessly about the lanes, careless of the splendour of their brambles. Broughton, Rhoda, Doctor Cupid(2011) adv without a clear purpose let's not purposelessly dispense the aid |
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