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
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
As Christy's plan was not in order, would be inutile, the business of the visitors at the islands was finished.
From Fighting for the Right by A. B. Shute
There will always be, naturally enough, persons who must inevitably regard such a work as that for which he and Maeterlinck are now responsible as, for the most part, vain, inutile, even preposterous.
From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman
The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
