Hypertext Webster Gateway: "senselessly"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Senseless \Sense"less\, a.
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without
sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise;
unreasonable.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless
things. --Shak.

The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
--Shak.

The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
--Rowe.

They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift.

They would repent this their senseless perverseness
when it would be too late. --Clarendon.
--- {Sense"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sense"less*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

senselessly
adv 1: in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent
bystanders were senselessly killed"
2: in an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were
mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards" [syn: {mindlessly}]

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