The phrase "futile argument" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use "futile argument" when describing a discussion or debate that is pointless or has no chance of changing someone's opinion or outcome. It implies that the argument is not worth having because it will not achieve anything. Example: "The politician's constant back-and-forth was just a futile argument, as neither side was willing to compromise."
Truthfully, it would be a futile argument because they very well may be right.
Still red-faced from his futile argument moments earlier, Norman waved off Morrisey.
Cisco, who is much older than Skye and has a nearly grown daughter, has one last conversation with her (via Skype) and one last screaming, futile argument with his former wife.
Their slightly hunched bodies lean on and support each other, but they're also frustrated, needling, Osipova batting her lover's body with her shoulders in a futile argument that no one is winning.
In an intriguing review in The Observer, Tracy Chevalier gave a good idea of why Faraday might be so problematic - aside from and above being a bit of a bore: "There is an inherent problem with ghost stories: they always boil down to a futile argument between sceptic and believer.
This dabble with a futile argument taught me a few things.
"Again and again sleep was interrupted by noisy and futile arguments... curses, cries... kicks and punches delivered blindly," Levi says of his journey by cattle car to Auschwitz.
Over the course of three days, she made objections and articulate, if futile, arguments: she objected when Sharon Gentry talked about how sad Treva had seemed; she objected when anyone talked about her mental state.
Cameroon's Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary said the government was "dismayed". "In the face of this blatant injustice, the government of the Republic urges the people of Cameroon to remain calm and not to indulge to futile arguments," said Mr Bakary.
Yet their position is that all Muslims are liars, so what's the point of making these futile arguments?
Walter was barred from legally representing others in Queensland in 2011 after acting in at least 10 cases where a judge said he ran the same "peculiar" but futile line of legal argument challenging state and local authorities over legislation including tree-clearing controls.
