inefficacious

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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

Consequently, there can be no efficacious prayer without prevenient grace, and purely natural prayer is inefficacious for salvation.

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

Imperfectly mixed coal-tar-creosote dips are liable to poison animals even when not used in stronger solutions than that recommended by the manufacturers, and are also likely to be inefficacious.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry