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
The omniscient God-man here asserts the existence of graces which remained inefficacious in Corozain and Bethsaida, though had they been given to the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they would have proved effective.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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.
Stretched on the agonizing couch of pain, All human aid inefficacious, vain, Where shall his tortured spirit rest?
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
