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

It is said, that though, to satisfy the Scotch Commissioners, all their requests were ostensibly granted, Henry took secret measures to render these grants entirely inefficacious.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

The omniscient God-man here asserts the existence of graces which remained inefficacious in Corozain and Bethsaida, though had they been given to the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they would have proved effective.

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

It is, at least, quite certain that other means will prove inefficacious, if this be not superadded.

From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.