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  1. vainly, in vainadverb

    to no avail

    "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"

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    vainly

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  1. Henry David Thoreau:

    How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  2. Ihor Zastavnyi:

    All this was not in vain. It's impossible even to think like this, when a person wants to give everything and devote himself to something, as did the Heavenly Hundred, it can't be for nothing.

  3. Somadeva:

    The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.*

  4. Andrea Irwin:

    I want to be able to make a change, i don't want my son to have died in vain.

  5. Adelina Domingues:

    I've never been to a beauty shop and I've never been vain.


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