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profitlessly

(ˈprɒfɪtlɪslɪ)

adv

in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages

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profitlessly - without gain or profit

gainlessly, unprofitably

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profitlessly

[ˈprɒfɪtlɪslɪ] ADV → inútilmente

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profitlessly

adv

(Comm) → ohne Gewinn

argue → zwecklos

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When the mining first began, several rebels toward the East had tried profitlessly to buck this irrefragable game and had found they had battered their unyielding heads against an equally unyielding stone wall.

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But now for years past I have resumed the habit, and I hope not to continue it profitlessly....

Christina Rossetti: illness and ideology

Bataille's initial point of contrast is inanimate objects, profitably used as tools or profitlessly squandered in displays of conspicuous destruction (or consumption, which amounts to the same thing for Bataille).