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VAINLY

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Traducere în limba română

vainly adverb

zadarnic, în zadar, fără folos, în van, degeaba, de pomană, în mod inutil.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He would have me sought for: vainly.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

She rarely slept any more in the cave, spending most of her time on the meat-trail, and spending it vainly.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire in the best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted—not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; and when they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, my mother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But why? he vainly questioned.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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