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- adverb In a
gainless manner;unprofitably
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without gain or profit
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Examples
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"The Gum Thief," Mr. Coupland's latest novel, finds his demographic cohort even more gainlessly employed than when it began -- this time the bored characters sleepwalk the floor at a Staples superstore -- but Mr. Coupland himself puts the lie to the myth of the Gen X underachiever.
Up From Anomie 2007
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Rational Review 2009
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See, it will be three years ago this week that the zoo showed me the door and you know damn well I'd be looking to kick November coincidence in the big fat ass if I suddenly became gainlessly unemployed so close to that still-stinging anniversary.
[sic] 2008
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