unfruitfully

I had rather do any thing, than wear out time so unfruitfully, sir.

Parvez is an independent financial adviser, who unfruitfully attempts to persuade Adrian to rein in his spending.

"Frankly, that's a bit too much excitement for me, and it has been my observation that the energies from such a thought basis tend to dissipate unfruitfully before the onrush of hard pragmatic realities.

Three are career women raised in the city, although one is divorced, another is unfruitfully married and concentrating on fertility pills, and the last is single only because she doesn't want to leave her mother.

Professor Donald Watt has argued that Roger is the same as Roger de Balnebrich, unfruitfully elected Bishop of Dunblane sometime between 1319 and 1322, and who Watt suggests had remained at the papal curia until provided to Ross.