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, one and the same grace may be efficacious in one case and inefficacious in another.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
I therefore once more directed squill, with decoction of seneka and sal sodæ; but it was inefficacious.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, as remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils that can only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas.—Mazzini.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
