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
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is my belief, however, that, had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.
From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock
As far as producing the effect contemplated was concerned, the law was altogether inefficacious.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
My counsels and remonstrances were not wholly inefficacious.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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