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Antonyms for usefully

Grammar : Adv

Spell : yoos-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈyus fəl

Definition of usefully

Origin : 1590s, from use (n.) + -full. Related: Usefully; usefulness.

As in profitably : adv lucratively
As in favorably : adv genially, in a kindly manner

Example sentences :

But they are not of the kind to which ancient logic can be usefully applied.
Extract from : « Euthydemus » by Plato

It comes from the outside, and for it no struggle can usefully be made.
Extract from : « Miss Mackenzie » by Anthony Trollope

How usefully these are distributed to all Orders of Men, v.241.
Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope

To be usefully and hopefully employed is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Extract from : « The Girl Wanted » by Nixon Waterman

TheyPage 252 might also be usefully employed in the detection of rick-burners.
Extract from : « Anecdotes of Dogs » by Edward Jesse

How few people in this world employ their money so usefully!
Extract from : « Olla Podrida » by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

And here again the superior knowledge of Nazinred came in usefully.
Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne

I did not think to mention the good dame, but she comes in usefully as an example.
Extract from : « Records of a Family of Engineers » by Robert Louis Stevenson

It occupied three years—usefully, I hope—and was published in 1905.
Extract from : « From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life » by Captain A. T. Mahan

If I can usefully make any representations to him, instruct me.
Extract from : « Lord Randolph Churchill » by Winston Spencer Churchill

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