senselessly

adverb

as in pointlessly

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Recent Examples of senselessly But Jameson is hardly the first family pet to senselessly perish at the hands of law enforcement officers who resort to deadly force far too quickly. — Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026 All the bad and all the good are gone, senselessly ripped away from them. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026 Advertisement Rabbi Eli Schlanger was only 41-years-old when he was gunned down mercilessly, senselessly by terrorists. — Nikki Goldstein, Time, 20 May 2026 He was given a helping hand by Cody Gakpo senselessly turning his back. — James Pearce, New York Times, 16 May 2026 The Army has been senselessly thrown into chaos. — Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 In 2025, funding for both domestic and global HIV care and research was suddenly and senselessly slashed. — Michael Rose, STAT, 3 Apr. 2026 This law, one of hundreds of pieces of anti-trans legislation across the country senselessly targets the small minority of people who happen to be trans. — Darren Rosenblum, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026 Amid this slew of senselessly avoidant, irrational behavior, Duchovny’s performance emerges as the most credible. — Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senselessly
  1. pointlessly
  2. irrelevantly
  3. imperfectly
  4. inadequately
Adverb
  • Don’t be pointlessly inscrutable.
    — Kim Scott, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But Senate Democrats in recent months have perfected the strategy of pointlessly running this tactic into the ground.
    — Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
Definition of pointlessly
Adverb
  • Grandma, irrelevantly but convincingly, spoke of wars, blizzards and trekking barefoot to school.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of irrelevantly
Adverb
  • But the legal system’s binary standard—sane and guilty, or insane and not—fits imperfectly with human intuitions about culpability in tragedies like the Clancys’.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • What kept her was the counselor who showed up imperfectly but consistently, who was unfinished and stayed anyway.
    — Laide Alexander, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of imperfectly
Adverb
  • Without the federal government as a consistent partner, local efforts are inadequately supported.
    — Monitor Reader, Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2026
  • Indian troops were deployed to thwart Chinese advances but were reportedly inadequately supplied, underprepared, and overwhelmed.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
Definition of inadequately

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