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
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Music is the gainer thereby, and the old-time cacophonous concerto for pianoforte and orchestra will, we hope, be relegated to the limbo of things inutile.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
King of England; La morale inutile; A Visit to the Doctor; and a Venus.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
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
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 Lawrence Gilman