inutile

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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

The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

He should use as by right and from instinct the material which lay inutile at her woman’s disposal.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

Although the worthlessness of Algæ has been proverbial, as in the "alga inutile" of Horace and Virgil's "projecta vilior alga," they are not without importance in botanical economics.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

The Memorie inutile in which Gozzi has depicted himself with such lifelike realism are sincere and vivacious, and rival Diderot and Rousseau for directness, luminousness and interest.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various