The word "uselessly" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you mean that something has been done without achieving a result or effect. Example: I spent hours trying to repair the broken machine, but I worked uselessly.
Imagine if they'd flapped their hands uselessly at their face before embarking on a tedious pre-written speech that thanked their agents and the award committee and all the other nominees and reasserted their love for their husbands and ended with a vague plea for world peace.
At the time of its opening, the joke went that the Eye was a perfect symbol of contemporary British political culture, going around and around uselessly and getting nowhere in the process.
Yet give the same politicians a few hundred small ideas for spending money uselessly (or worse), and over the space of a decade they will have no trouble at all in adding $100 billion a year to public spending.The real problem with Mr Phelps's plan is not that the short-term costs are too high: it is that they are too clear.
Today, some of those victims, their stumps hanging uselessly and conspicuously by their sides, wander along on the opposite side of the street from their former tormentors.But the fact that the taxi-driving "former combatants", as the authorities call them, have their own jobs and thus a stake in the local economy is seen as a huge step forward in Sierra Leone.
Their automatic rifles hung uselessly on their shoulders as they kicked up a cloud of red dust.The tribe took care to mete out justice evenly.
Mr Thaler's direction offers real hope of models that are truthful without being uselessly unwieldy.
Miles of twisting stainless-steel pipes and huge storage tanks gleam uselessly in the sun.
The two jeeps' drivers, members of forest-dwelling tribes, were astonishingly skilled; but often the wheels spun uselessly in mud and the passengers had to get out and push, to the hooting of lion-tailed macaques in the canopy.For most of the drive your correspondent was jammed between the senior researcher, Rachunliu Kamei, and the gearstick.
Policies based on these "obvious" interventions would be, respectively, damaging and uselessly expensive.For those already born, however, the secret is to overcome couch-potato syndrome eat less and exercise more.
If the beauty business deceives people into spending money uselessly or harmfully, should it be stopped from doing so?
Their names might be on the tip of one's tongue, only to re-emerge, uselessly, in the middle of the night.
