ineffectual

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He said the claimants' complaints about the "harmful effects" were "shunned and ignored" before the nurses were "penalised and buried" in an "oppressive and ineffectual investigation process" carried out by the trust.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Its efforts to strike at Israel proved generally ineffectual.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

It’s also odd that the activist-minded Greengrass didn’t do more with so corporate a villain: legally responsible utility PG&E, represented in the movie by an ineffectual suit who is briefly yelled at.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

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

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin