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
Returning came his years as wholly vain— Repeated payment of inutile toll To reach a shrine he would not seek again.
From Sonnets from the Patagonian by Donald Evans
Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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 Grant Martin Overton
A light coat with many admirably unnecessary capes and adorably inutile ribbons floated downward from her shoulders.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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