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

Ind�pendamment de l'int�r�t que ces couches pr�sentent au g�ologiste sous un nombre de rapports qu'il seroit trop long et peut-�tre inutile de d�tailler, elles pr�sentent m�me pour le peintre, un superbe tableau.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

Déjà les chevaux s'éffrayaient, les rangs se confondaient, et le désordre égarait le courage et le rendait inutile, lorsque les Suisses descendirent de la montagne en poussant de grands cris.

From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter