A variant or nonstandard spelling of futilely, meaning without hope of success.
Misspelling or dialectal variant of futilely, showing alternative '-ey' ending instead of standard '-ly.'
Futiley is one of those words that probably never should have existed in formal English but appeared in older texts due to spelling inconsistency, making it a perfect example of how language standardization was a messy process.
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