inefficacious
Example Sentences
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, at least, quite certain that other means will prove inefficacious, if this be not superadded.
From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.
Imperfectly mixed coal-tar-creosote dips are liable to poison animals even when not used in stronger solutions than that recommended by the manufacturers, and are also likely to be inefficacious.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
He commenced the sentence with a dignity, and ended it with a familiarity equally inefficacious.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
