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
Had his aunt merely told him that his present would be inefficacious, he would have taken that assurance as being simply her opinion, and would have still entertained some hopes in the diamonds.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony
The padlock was never fixed upon the mind, and even the lock and key, prescribed by act of parliament, were found inefficacious.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria
And those victories became more numerous and splendid when, after two years of inefficacious friendship with us, the Spaniard and the Dutchman joined our enemies.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville
