futile in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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futile in the PONS Dictionary

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inútil
futile
menudo (-a)
futile
andar cazando moscas
to spend time on futile things

futile Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

futile attempt
intento m en vano
to spend time on futile things
andar cazando moscas
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Trying to go around is futile as it extends itself forever.
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His demands were futile and in order to try to calm things down he even ordered the liquor saloons to close.
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The best of discipline was futile in the face of the privations that now ensued.
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Then followed a period of poor flying weather which made any sort of operation extremely futile.
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By the end the idealistic boy rebel emerges as a realistic young man who recognises the truth: violence, especially political violence, is futile.
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But these attempts were tentative and, nonetheless, futile.
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Protests were futile, the courts no longer offered hope of redress.
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His efforts were futile as he could not free his arm from the 800 lb (360 kg) chockstone.
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Money would be better directed to dealing with problems as they occur rather than making expensive and futile attempts to prevent climate change.
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Her predominant yet ultimately futile obsession is attempting to snag rich (and preferably handsome) men, which rarely appear in the series.
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