inefficacious

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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consequently, there can be no efficacious prayer without prevenient grace, and purely natural prayer is inefficacious for salvation.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

The ordinary remedies—such as salt dissolved in water—are inefficacious.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

The puerilities of inefficacious charms and mysterious ceremonies with which he deludes his clients are not all.

From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Jekyll, Walter