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

It was inefficacious, however, when one of these was involved in sin.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

In fact, the anathema remained inefficacious within and without.313 In vain did the pope employ the Jesuits to raise or indispose the European courts against the Venetians.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois