ineffectual

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“Sinners” centers the Black American experience through history, art and spirituality, while “One Battle” speaks to the white liberal male’s ineffectual navigation of weaponized racial grievance.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

The group has shown itself to be utterly ineffectual, unable to come up with a unified response to an international crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

A diplomat by nature and possessed of old-fashioned manners, he struggled as a party leader and his performances in the bear pit of Prime Minister's Questions were seen by many as ineffectual.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

In this tit for tat, though, California’s threats to respond have thus far proved ineffectual.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless.

From "1984" by George Orwell