forceless
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At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
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Besides, to a child of positive traits, those persuasions are utterly forceless which, instead of being addressed to the prominent faculties, are directed to those comparatively deficient.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me, Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, From morn to night, even where I list, to sport me.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
