inutile
Example Sentences
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Structures and systems are eroding, and what we once saw as sources of stability are being revealed as outmoded or inutile – or worse – as reinforcing social oppression.
From The Guardian
Duterte previously threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations for its criticism of his drug crackdown, describing the world body as inutile in the face of genocidal killings in other places.
From Washington Times
She became a theologian in petticoats and wrote numerous inutile books about pin-points in matters ecclesiastical.
From Project Gutenberg
There is a lot of inutile talk about "significant form" by propagandists of the New Æsthetic.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.