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
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.
He now stood trembling in fear of Elizabeth’s reproof, stammering out a wild protestation of his inability to save the horse by force, and of his inefficacious attempts to save him by prayer.
From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Stephens, Robert Neilson
He commenced the sentence with a dignity, and ended it with a familiarity equally inefficacious.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
