Synonym: impotently, unable to help. Similar words: helpless, carelessly, ruthlessly, recklessly, hopelessly, tactlessly, mercilessly, effortlessly. Meaning: adv. in a helpless manner.
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61) Firm fingers turned her head round, and helplessly she met his eyes.
62) While the menace may be unstoppable, infection-control doctors are not cowering helplessly.
63) But not as sick as Vicky, who every morning now staggered up to retch helplessly into the slop bucket.
64) Both Mark and Lulu giggled helplessly over that, and Diana smiled, but she was beginning to feel left out.
65) There, for 20 years, she had watched helplessly as that country's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction.
66) Now she clutched at it helplessly, scarcely knowing what to do with it.
67) Horrified witnesses watched helplessly as the blazing man staggered around the square before collapsing.
68) For McKenzie,[sentencedict .com] the tide had turned again and he watched helplessly as his life raft drifted back over the horizon.
69) Mr Parsons began to cough again, while his wife looked on helplessly.
70) Turning in alarm, he watched helplessly as Saunders' body was raised and cradled in his murderer's arms.
71) Clarence raised his head, looked at her, and shrugged his shoulders helplessly.
72) She drifted helplessly along in calm water at just over three knots, making it virtually impossible to assess her sailing characteristics.
73) Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary?
74) Slowly he began his journey upward[sentencedict.com], helplessly I waited to lend him my assistance.
75) He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth, the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.
76) I stared helplessly at the announcement, written now in a very shaky hand, and did as he asked.
77) Rex, pardon me, but you don't seem to be shrugging helplessly or shaking your head.
78) He stood helplessly, like a lost soul.
79) He helplessly watched the wave sweep his cap away.
80) Mrs Parsons looked on helplessly.
81) This directory is helplessly out of date.
82) The boat wallowed helplessly in the stormy sea.
83) His abrupt change of subject left her floundering helplessly.
84) Ribbing a friend for being helplessly in love.
85) But now I have to watch helplessly her self-poisoning.
86) They helplessly watch the crops being flooded.
87) The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly.
88) The ship drifted helplessly for a time.
89) The other officers hovered helplessly about , whispering and waving their hands.
90) " The fisherman said helplessly:"But if I don't stir the water I would not get the fish and would be starved to death.
More similar words: helpless, carelessly, ruthlessly, recklessly, hopelessly, tactlessly, mercilessly, effortlessly, ceaselessly, expressly, nonetheless, hapless, nevertheless, help, help out, helping, helpful, cannot help, helping hand, with the help of, uselessness, tactlessness, selflessness, limitlessness, principles, slyness, less, bless, useless, lessen.