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

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 Overton, Grant Martin

Quum locatum a censoribus theatrum exstrueretur; P. C. Nasica auctore, tanquam inutile, et nociturum publicis moribus, ex senatusconsulto destructum est: populusque aliquandiu stans ludos spectavit.579.Plin.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

Theocritus speaks of συκινοι ανδρες, useless men; Horace, "Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum;" and Juvenal, "Sterilis mala robora ficus."

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

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 Gilman, Lawrence