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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootless
Adjective
  • One game after the Oilers were unsuccessful in challenging that Bennett interfered with Stuart Skinner during the game’s first goal, Bennett toppled over Skinner after getting contact from Ekholm later in the period.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • Efforts to reach Suncor officials for this story were unsuccessful.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • Cutting spending wasted on a futile pursuit of a global empire is not just a fiscal necessity.
    Ron Paul, Oc Register, 20 May 2025
  • Desperate Steve Kerr frequently toggled his non-Draymond Green big men as late as the second round of the playoffs in a futile effort to contain the giants of the Minnesota Timberwolves around the rim.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • For one, any melasma treatment is practically useless without them.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 May 2025
  • The character who can go through walls is useless, because beyond the walls is nothing but dirt.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • The position advanced by the states is legally unavailing as a matter of longstanding and well-established law.
    WSJ, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • Efforts to aid him with lifeboats, three of which were ineffectually trying to breast the heavy sea, were unavailing, while a lifeline, held by a number of rescuers, was carried far out into the surf by a number of swimmers.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
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“Bootless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootless. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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