uselessly

That's why he performs all the chores and runs all the errands she tells him to, while she puts on a front of the happy homemaker, uselessly baking cakes and arranging flowers.

Connor is frantic now, pulling uselessly at the seat belt, kicking his legs out in front of him.

“Don’t use stalker as a verb,” says Cole, clinging uselessly onto a handrail.

“It’s uselessly costly and its storage is small and battery life even worse.”

Meanwhile, in some intellectual quarters, “humanism” is seen as a mask for elitism, bourgeois complacency or worse — when it isn’t dismissed entirely as a uselessly squishy concept.