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
I can have no reason for pestering you with them, but par un esprit de bavardise, ou pour me rappeler plus souvent a votre souvenir; ce que votre amitie a rendu pour moi tres inutile.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by E. S. Roscoe
"Hélas, Monsieur, c'est inutile; on donne toujours la même réponse: 'Nichts verstehn,'" for it appears when these complaints are made the Prussian officers pretend not to understand French.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
On parade days, when the long lines of boys in khaki went by, they were silent, heavy, inutile.
From Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
