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ineffectual

adjective as in useless

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They also say the agency is ineffectual when it comes to its other main area of oversight, antitrust and competition, or ensuring market fairness.

From Digiday

“The reasons for the delay were varied and complex and included fierce competition over finite resources, bitter interpersonal rivalries, and ineffectual scientific management,” the 2019 study in Physics Today noted.

When Superman and Batman doffed their costumes to become Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, they revealed personae as ineffectual as Don Diego, the ennui-ridden, apolitical dandy who delights in playing parlor tricks with his handkerchief.

This model is meaningfully distinct from the constituency statutes in some states that seek to strengthen stakeholder interests, but that stakeholder advocates condemn as ineffectual.

From Fortune

The Obama administration has pulled together a coalition as ineffectual as it is unwilling.

The end result only confirmed its image as disorganized and ineffectual.

Why, then, are we led to believe that her conniving ways are so ineffectual and misdirected?

On Thrones, power, politics, money, and force constantly trump goodness, in each of its ineffectual forms.

But the White House is sounding more and more defensive and ineffectual.

Who can understand its nature, its operations, the sufficiency which is not sufficient, and the efficacy which is ineffectual.

We had heard the roar of her guns, and the quick, ineffectual firing from Fort McAllister.

Gaolers and soldiers, utterly taken aback by this sudden onslaught, made but ineffectual resistance.

In some places an ineffectual resistance was made, and several lives lost on both sides.

A rift in the opposition was started, and an attempt to close it by a conference two days later was ineffectual.

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ineffectual, such as: futile, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, and insufficient.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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