"It is a pointless thing that serves no purpose," he says.

Often they end up talking about "the most pointless things imaginable."

He obviously has a drug problem, and most of time talks about pointless things.

But it would be a rather pointless thing to do, and I've never been much good at losing my temper anyway.

The most pointless thing he could think of was a machine that serves no useful function at all.

Since then the term is applied to anything both useless and expensive, and especially to pointless things.

More to the point, why would she have done such a pointless thing?

It is so pointless that there are now more than 300 million people active on the site, doing their pointless things.

"That was a cruel and pointless thing to do," she went on.

She was doing the pointless things with her hands that little girls do.