inefficacious
Example Sentences
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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
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
Punishment, being primarily mischievous, is out of place when groundless, inefficacious, unprofitable, or needless.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
The proffered grace remained inefficacious simply because the sinner rejected it of his own free will.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
