bootless
Use Bootless in a sentence
lɪs adjective
without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless.
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bootless (ˈbuːtlɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| of little or no use; vain; fruitless: a bootless search | |
| [Old English bōtlēas, from bōt compensation; Old Norse bótalauss] | |
| 'bootlessly | |
| —adv | |
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Bootless
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Example sentences
But it is bootless asking for evidence of the weather, and money has become the weather of politics.
It seems bootless to keep on if my conviction has any merit.
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