inefficacious
Example Sentences
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were as unfriendly to the old confederation as to the system now proposed, but bore it with more patience because it was wholly inefficacious.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester
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
My counsels and remonstrances were not wholly inefficacious.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
