resultless
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, complicated, disturbed and persistently resultless situations always end by becoming irksome to those who are entangled in them, and by inspiring a desire for extrication.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
It occurred to me that possibly the pomegranate seeds might have germinated, and the plants become established and acclimatised, but search proved resultless.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
"I will see Wilson myself in the morning," said Miss Arnott, when Evans's researches proved resultless.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
When afternoon approached, wearied by the resultless job-hunt and discouraged by his continued misfortune, he sank upon a bench in a city park to take a rest.
From The Trail of the Tramp by Leon Ray Livingston
The spirit of intrigue with women, as to which men will flatter themselves, is customarily so vile, so mean, so vapid a reflection of a feeling, so aimless, resultless, and utterly unworthy!
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
