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Adverb: fruitlessly  froot-lus-lee
  1. In an unproductive manner
    "She implies that she must choose between fruitlessly preserving her virginity or fruitlessly expending it"
    - unproductively, unprofitably

See also: fruitless

Antonym: fruitfully

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