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pointless

not having a point especially a sharp point my pencils are all pointless (= otiose, purposeless, senseless, wasted) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being otiose lines in a play advice is wasted words a pointless remark a life essentially purposeless senseless violence

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Simple sentences

He thinks his job is pointless.
Life without love is just totally pointless.
That's pointless.
Any further discussion is pointless.
I think my job is pointless.
It all seems pointless.
This is pointless.
These two years were completely pointless. It seems to me that I haven't matured one bit since I've been at the university.
Forced work is pointless: I attract them with decent pay.
If you continue with the pointless arguments here.it'll end up as a repeat of yesterday.
It's so pointless to ask for something that you yourself can get!
It's pointless. However much we try, we won't succeed. Now admit it.
It would be pointless.
She thinks her job is pointless.

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But beyond that, to be blunt, they turned out to be pretty pointless.
It would be pointless to go against the will of my father.
If that is so, then long life must be even more pointless.
This is pointless.
I hope my sacrifice won't be pointless.
It's pointless to use a stethoscope.
It's pointless if we only look after your lungs.
Human sacrifice has gone out of style. Japanese make so many pointless sacrifices.
That's why they're so pointless. And so senseless.
It's dreadful, so pointless.
Maybe it's pointless.
The point is, the world is a dark place if his dedication was pointless.
It's pointless that she should ignore it, even if I ignored it.
It's pointless being ironical.
We can no longer overlook what those foolish humans are doing, repeating their pointless wars over and over, blindly triggering disasters.
What's all the pointless yammering about down there? Enough, you windup dolls.
To be swayed by such pointless pity.
First, it's pointless.
After days of pointless rock climbing we were able to hunt down the unknown animal and liken it to its closest relative, the strange Tahr of the Western Himalaya.
Miserable, pointless, ridiculous crap!
Everything we're doing to create order around us, especially within us Pointless.
It is pointless and not fun.
It sounds interesting. But isn't it a little pointless? Quite.
Bring your personnel back, it's pointless.
It was pointless.
Maybe it's my fault that things have turned out to be rather, well, tiresome and pointless.
Its pointless for that dog to stay here, it would be bad and dangerous.
It's pointless. There's nothing doing.
Now let us break camp and avoid pointless discussions with the police.
It's all endless and pointless.
It doesn't make sense. lt's quite pointless.
It's quite pointless.
The whole thing's been so pointless.
And certainly not pointless ones.
Pointless, going on like this.
Chromosomes! Without journalists, this meeting is pointless.
The things you say are pointless.
Do you see another head of government who would make my candidacy pointless?

News and current affairs

Social insurance was not just pointless; it was counterproductive.
He agreed to swap Palestinian prisoners for an abducted soldier, Gilad Shalit; but, for Netanyahu, as for most Israelis, negotiating with an organization whose blatantly anti-Semitic charter rejects Israel's right to exist is pointless.
Europe's Pointless Deficit Targets?
More lending therefore can be pointless if it results in the EIB crowding out private financing of the best available projects.
Then came the pointless provocation of refusing talks with the troika, despite the fact that the three institutions are all much more sympathetic to Greek demands than the German government.
From this perspective, once Buffett earned his first few millions in the 1960's, his efforts to accumulate more money can easily seem completely pointless.
Is Fiscal Stimulus Pointless?
But to respond by fighting inflation inside the US would be grossly inappropriate - both much more painful for US consumers and pointless.
Japan seems condemned to endure chronic and pointless political trench warfare until some crisis forces a realignment of political parties along ideological and policy lines.
When a virus has been associated with its host for a very long time, it mutates to a form that grows well without killing its host, which would be a pointless outcome from an evolutionary standpoint.
When Palestinians asked Mitchell for assurances that the US would support such a statehood declaration if talks failed, Mitchell responded that such a commitment would make negotiations pointless.
This is not to say that the macroeconomic model-building of the past generation has been pointless.
Less obviously, a country does not want misguided or pointless change; it wants investments that appear to the financial sector as productive.
International humanitarian efforts to help those in Sudan are hampered by Sudanese government harassment and pointless bureaucratic hassles.
In fact, this is all a pointless charade.
Are pointless gestures really the way to secure a greener future?
Yet, despite this spending shortfall, Putin seems obsessed with making pointless and provocative gestures, such as resuming long-range nuclear bomber flights off the American coast.
COPENHAGEN - Russia's aggression against Ukraine is one of the great tragedies of our time, not only because of the tremendous human cost, but also because it is utterly pointless.
In other words, the cyber blame game is pointless.
Otherwise, Iran's nuclear and missile programs would be a pointless waste of money.
But establishing their father's awareness could be a double-edged sword, since it could also mean that keeping him alive is pointless torture, and it is in his best interests to be allowed to die peacefully.
In exchange for laying down their arms and ending a pointless and destructive war, Tiger soldiers should be encouraged to take part in politics, but on exactly the same terms as any other Sri Lankan.
Of course, it is pointless at this stage to re-examine that tragic folly.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and it seems pointless to work to strengthen the Democratic links of the chain of fiscal advice when the Republican links are not just weak but absent.

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