If it were not for this, all the questions of exact equality and these balances, never to be settled, of individual rights, population, and contribution would be wholly useless.

But I hope that naval experience will not prove wholly useless in this arena.

He concluded: "Should the impossible be achieved and the land attained, it would be wholly useless and of no benefit to the discoverer or his nation".

He need not know anything whatever; he may be wholly useless and a cumberer of the earth; he may even be known to be a consummate scoundrel.

Eventually the horse was led away as wholly useless and intractable.

My wife does not want me to notify you of this, but I consider concealment wholly useless.

He described the case of three gentlemen, not wholly useless to their country, who had suddenly fallen into ennui.

It seems logical to assume that some currently iffy ideas will eventually be recognized as valuable and that some will be found wholly useless.

He felt as if he were not wholly useless- indeed, in such a stress of weather, quite worth while about the house.

It was done in defiance both of masters and Bloods, it was wholly useless, and there was no malice in it.