forceless

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These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.

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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.

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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.

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Time and again, as he stumbled or staggered, it seemed as though he would fail, so feeble had the body become and so forceless his will-power.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

In our review of the agrarian agitation we must mention the forceless and insignificant attempt made by the son of Spurius Melius, in 434.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew