'bootless' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning "with no result, fruitless, unsuccessful". For example, "My attempts to persuade her to reconsider were bootless."
It has since been swollen by thousands of bootless former resistance fighters, including traditional Mai-Mai militiamen, who fought Rwanda's occupation of eastern Congo with a combination of woodsman's lore, magic potions and the odd firearm sent from Kinshasa.
The patience of Russia's junior officers and privates, many bootless and half-starved, has been immense.
In 1981 came "Philosophical Explanations", which contains a famous chapter asking a seemingly bootless question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?", as well as chapters on personal identity and on free will.
As our feet luxuriated in bootless freedom, each of us wrapped our heads in scarves or sought out meagre shade, silently digesting our food.
It is bootless to compare African-Americans to "other" immigrant groups and to speak of "assimilating" them: African-Americans are not an immigrant group, and, as the success of the cultural synthesis shows, the responsibility for doing the assimilating is not theirs alone.
A crew of divers was scheduled to start cleaning the seaweed off the net in preparation for winter, although now it seemed like a bootless task, given that Keiko might never come back.
"I think it would be bootless, and, moreover — this is going to sound priggish, but I believe it — inappropriate.
He can do this by providing legislative leadership that makes sure bootless children in America have a shot at realizing the American dream.
Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
A week ago such an act would have been bootless utopianism.
Elkjær was running down the left wing with the ball when he lost his right boot; he kept running and ended up shooting home with his bootless right foot.
