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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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 Grant Martin Overton
King of England; La morale inutile; A Visit to the Doctor; and a Venus.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
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
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