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
Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
The greatest dangers in the jungle are those which cannot be met with impunity; those that render every defence inefficacious when a man is taken unawares.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by I. Stone Sanpietro
In writing novels we novelists preach to you from our pulpits, and are keenly anxious that our sermons shall not be inefficacious.
From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
So it proved; either the antidote, with which I believe Bushmen often do effect wonderful cures, was stale and inefficacious, or the poison had obtained too strong a hold.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
