Synonyms for vainly
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1. vainlyadverb

   Synonyms:
   in vain

2. vainlyadverb

   In a vain manner; to no avail.

   Synonyms:
   in vain

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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"

   Synonyms:
   in vain

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1. John McCain:

   Human rights progress in Vietnam should also be better served by restoring relations with that country, the Vietnamese have already developed complex relations with the rest of the free world. Instead of vainly trying to isolate Vietnam, the United States should test the proposition that greater exposure to Americans will render Vietnam more susceptible to the influence of our values.

2. Pope Francis:

   We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet.

3. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

4. Christopher Morley:

   A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

5. Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller:

   Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise founders of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.