unavailing
IPA: ʌnʌvˈeɪɫɪŋ
adjective
- Fruitless, futile, useless.
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Examples of "unavailing" in Sentences
- But no time must now be lost in unavailing lamentation.
- If citations to authorities are unavailing, then why bother
- Kaplan also rejected Ghailani's claim that his intelligence value dissipated over time, calling his argument "unavailing":
- And I didn't know, never dreamed -- I, who had lived with John Barleycorn for so many years and laughed at all his unavailing attempts to win me.
- “The further pursuit of these miserable beings, by a large military force,” he apprised Congress, “seems to be as injudicious as it is unavailing.”
- Finding all attempts to obtain better terms unavailing, Lord Cornwallis submitted to a necessity no longer to be avoided, and, on the 19th of October, surrendered the posts of
- Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, finding arguments that the firm as escrow agent had a duty to investigate and disclose the frauds to the Osters were "unavailing" and "illogical."
- Ellis said that Blackwater's argument that it cannot be sued under the ATS is "unavailing," adding that corporations and individuals can both be held responsible for crimes and torts.
- Before the earl could make a remark, Murray had disappeared; and after exploring the lower part of the tower in unavailing search for a way, he met Sir Roger Kirkpatrick issuing from a small door, which, being in shadow, he had hitherto overlooked.
- He was not, however, a man to waste, in unavailing regrets, hours that might be more advantageously employed to repair the evil, and he therefore at once set about the arrangement of measures for inducing and enabling the banks to resume at the earliest possible moment.
- Amidst all the gloom of neglect and difficulty that was hastening him rapidly to decay, his gratitude, a distinguished characteristic, was frequently awakened by the knowledge that some kind natures felt for his situation, though their efforts to diminish his anxieties were unavailing.