unavailing

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unavailing

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  1. Fruitless, futile, useless. The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced the

    Similar: futile

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adj fruitless, futile, useless

Españolinfructuoso, fútil, inútil, ocioso, inservible
Françaisinutile, vain, futile, infructueux
Deutschvergeblich, nutzlos, unbrauchbar, umsonst
Italianoinefficace, infruttuoso, futile

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@misc{unavailing_2026,
  title = {unavailing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unavailing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}