ineffectively

The double standard of sexualization is hypocritical at best and ineffectively vindictive at worse.

After the usual means for resuscitation had been ineffectively tried, her heart was laid bare.

We replied ineffectively, for we had no means of dislodging them, nor did the cavalry when they came up.

Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm!

The French replied from some old guns on the hills as well as three shots from the Zelie, but ineffectively.

The imbecile sounds stopped, but the lips worked ineffectively again.