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Synonyms for helplessly
help·less·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
helplessly, impotently, unable to helpadverb
in a helpless manner
"the crowd watched him helplessly"
Synonyms:
unable to help, impotently
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It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass, it failed... by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently...
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.
She cursed me, telling me ‘You should have stayed in North Korea. Why did you come here and bump into me?‘ it deeply hurt me. I couldn’t show my temper because I was hurt too much ... I just stood helplessly and I didn’t go to school for a week.
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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- sin poder hacer nadaSpanish
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