He tugged uselessly at the ropes, but could not free himself.
The money is lying around uselessly and there are people who need it urgently.
Men may die horribly, randomly, and uselessly, but at least they can say that they behaved well.
The pull of the opposing considerations (learners clearly do\clearly don't generalize) is so strong that there's a danger of just seesawing uselessly between them.
Such a large dictionary is probably overkill, and in fact, it may even be the case that it uselessly slows down processing, by proposing extremely rare (although probably valid) words.
In contrast, many plans which have never been put into practice have uselessly changed the nature of an area of which they will never be a part.
When it gets at the facts, the mischief has probably been done, and it may be found that the money has been uselessly thrown away.
