Crossword-Solution: VAINLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Vainly | adv. | In a vain manner; in vain. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “VAINLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Without avail | 1 answer |
| With conceit | 1 answer |
| In a self-important way | 1 answer |
| How peacocks strut | 1 answer |
| How peacocks are said to strut | 1 answer |
| As Narcissus would | 1 answer |
| For naught | 2 answers |
| Without success | 3 answers |
| Uselessly | 4 answers |
| To no avail | 9 answers |
| Avail oneself of | 10 answers |
| AMERICAN LESLEY'S GOING OUT WITH, TO NO AVAIL | 10 answers |
| jokily | 20 answers |
| laughingly | 20 answers |
| perkily | 20 answers |
| slickly | 20 answers |
| trivially | 20 answers |
| inconsequentially | 21 answers |
| frivolously | 21 answers |
| giddily | 21 answers |
| glibly | 22 answers |
| flippantly | 23 answers |
| dizzily | 23 answers |
| dismissively | 23 answers |
| BOLDLY | 24 answers |
| idly | 26 answers |
| avail | 40 answers |
| Playfully | 50 answers |
| rudely | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VAINLY (5)
Hardly from his buried wigwam Could the hunter force a passage; With his mittens and his snow-shoes Vainly walked he through the forest, Sought for bird or beast and found none, Saw no track of deer or rabbit, In the snow beheld no footprints, In the ghastly, gleaming forest Fell, and could not rise from weakness, Perished there from cold and hunger.
But thou O Father, I forewarn thee, shun His deadly arrow; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright Arms, Though temper’d heav’nly, for that mortal dint, Save he who reigns above, none can resist.
She remembered—betwixt a smile and a shudder—the talk of the neighbouring townspeople, who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child’s paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring: such as, ever since old Catholic times, had occasionally been seen on earth, through the agency of their mother’s sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose.
Among these the Comtesse de Tournay de Basserive, but lately arrived from France, was a most conspicuous figure: dressed in deep, heavy black silk, with only a white lace kerchief to relieve the aspect of mourning about her person, she sat beside Lady Portarles, who was vainly trying by witty sallies and somewhat broad jokes, to bring a smile to the Comtesse’s sad mouth.
The door, therefore, which they supposed to be securely locked,—which Holgrave, indeed, had seen to be so, and at which Phœbe had vainly tried to enter,—must have been opened from without.
Quotes with VAINLY (3)
O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless — of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light — of the objects mean — of the struggle ever renew’d; Of the poor results of all — of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me; Of the empty and useless years of the rest — with the rest me intertwined; The question…
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; t…
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1984–2024).