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
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
Thus it can scarcely be doubted, that in the first of the following passages Pope remembered Ovid, and that in the second he copied Crashaw: Saepe pater dixit, studium quid inutile tentas?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
As Christy's plan was not in order, would be inutile, the business of the visitors at the islands was finished.
From Fighting for the Right by A. B. Shute
