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Especially if one is a self-proclaimed Christian, but even if not, one should refrain from profitlessly insulting people with these kinds of remarks, which one would so dislike having directed toward oneself.

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Confused, they have lashed out at themselves and others, ultimately profitlessly and meaninglessly.

Guardsman Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1981

I tried to sort out into order exactly what had happened the evening before, and wondered profitlessly what I would have done if I hadn't been drunk.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

I tried to sort out into order exactly what had happened the evening before, and wondered profitlessly what I would have done if I hadn't been drunk.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

The two stood listening, and from the open doorway above the clatter of the traffic and the patter of feet on the pavement came floating down to them profitlessly.

The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952

This is not to pose the editorial question of justice, but to remember in passing the girdled forests, abused prairies, gullied lands, the stupidly harnessed plains, wasted coal, gas, petroleum; the millions of tons of rich mud denied hungry soil by Mississippi levees and forced profitlessly into the salt sea.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

When the mining first began, several rebels toward the East had tried profitlessly to buck this irrefragable game and had found they had battered their unyielding heads against an equally unyielding stone wall.

Dust 1921

When the mining first began, several rebels toward the East had tried profitlessly to buck this irrefragable game and had found they had battered their unyielding heads against an equally unyielding stone wall.

Dust Marcet Haldeman-Julius 1914

The events of life are the hieroglyphics in which God records His feelings towards us, the key to which is found in the Bible [Moore]. wages ... put ... into a bag with holes -- proverbial for labor and money spent profitlessly (Zec 8: 10; compare Isa 55: 2; Jer 2: 13).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The work of busy bee at a window-pane had at any rate not spoilt her beauty, though she had voluntarily, profitlessly, become this man's drudge, and her sprightly fancy, her ready humour and darting look all round in discussion, were rather deadened.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868