inutile
Example Sentences
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Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can have no reason for pestering you with them, but par un esprit de bavardise, ou pour me rappeler plus souvent a votre souvenir; ce que votre amitie a rendu pour moi tres inutile.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.
"Hélas, Monsieur, c'est inutile; on donne toujours la même réponse: 'Nichts verstehn,'" for it appears when these complaints are made the Prussian officers pretend not to understand French.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
It is true that it would have been inutile, for no incident occurred to put the colonists to any painful trial.
From The Secret of the Island by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The tune of her life had never sounded so discouragingly faint and inutile.
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
