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
I can have no reason for pestering you with them, but par un esprit de bavardise, ou pour me rappeler plus souvent a votre souvenir; ce que votre amitie a rendu pour moi tres inutile.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by E. S. Roscoe
One after another these precautions were rendered inutile.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
The study of life at a distance is inutile; the study of it at close range is defective.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
