inefficacious
Example Sentences
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Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
So it proved; either the antidote, with which I believe Bushmen often do effect wonderful cures, was stale and inefficacious, or the poison had obtained too strong a hold.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, as remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils that can only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas.—Mazzini.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
A few Spotswoods, scattered here and there in the seats of the mighty of our modern America, might not prove inefficacious.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison
