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View synonyms for in vain
in vain
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Idioms and Phrases
To no avail, useless, as in All our work was in vain . [c. 1300] Also see take someone's name in vain .Discover More
Example Sentences
When Montezuma's tree fell the people gathered on the house-tops to watch the east-in vain, for the white man was there.
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A man is not an elder because his head is gray; his age may be ripe, but he is called "Old-in-vain."
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I come as a friend, and that I may save you a labour-in-vain trouble.
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