resultless

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Too primitive for the Society into which he had cantered must be his Far-West methods, since rusted over were his hopes and resultless his to-day.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

The follies that seemed so amusing and resultless in their time had ripened to this bitter effect, and he knew that he, and not she, was mainly culpable.

From A Modern Instance by Howells, William Dean

Frederick calculated at more than eight hundred thousand men the losses caused to the belligerents by this obstinate and resultless struggle, the fruit of wicked ambition or culpable weaknesses on the part of governments.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert

Then it will appear that the work of the servant, resultless as it seemed to be up to the exile, has yet not been in vain.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

War strategy is vivid, stimulating and resultful; preparation strategy is dull, plodding, and—for the strategist himself—apparently resultless.

From The Navy as a Fighting Machine by Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)