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

King of England; La morale inutile; A Visit to the Doctor; and a Venus.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther

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

Quamvis Pontica pinus, Silvæ filia nobilis, Jactes et genus et nomen inutile.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Incipiente ictu qui vim non prompserit omnem   Dique hominesque odere; hic, pondus inutile cymbae,   Tardat iter; comites necat; hunc tu, nauta, caveto!

From Sagittulae, Random Verses by Bowling, Edward Woodley