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
The tune of her life had never sounded so discouragingly faint and inutile.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
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
It is true that it would have been inutile, for no incident occurred to put the colonists to any painful trial.
From The Secret of the Island by William Henry Giles Kingston
It presently disappeared and I should not be surprised if it were still lying, an unknown and inutile lignum in some Cairene mosque.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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