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impotence

noun as in sterility

noun as in weakness

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Though as the bombardment of Ukrainian cities escalated alongside the testiness of exchanges inside the chamber, feelings shifted to outrage at the impotence of members’ calls for peace and dialogue.

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It’s more frustration and the feeling of impotence over the situation at times.

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Despite the violence and government impotence in finding the perpetrators, Hazara have exhibited remarkable restraint.

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This gives the book a feeling of impotence at best and dangerously misdirected blame at worst.

The result is safe seats that lead to apathy and voter impotence, leading logically to ever-declining voter turnout.

Brinkley explained that despite all the recent advances in medicine, there still was nothing to be done for impotence.

That is the height of cynicism, combined with an admission of impotence.

Male infertility was extremely stigmatic: it was falsely conflated with impotence.

European history also suggests the impotence of criminal law in these matters.

In a voice thick with the torturing rage of impotence he gave the order upon which the grim Parisian insisted.

One of its characteristic features was the acknowledged impotence of the gods to secure future happiness.

Their "lameness" and "ineptness" and "impotence" plainly arose from disinclination alone.

During the revolutionary war the French believed that they could reduce England to impotence by ruining her commerce.

Must we also consider impotence and sickness a form, because sickness and vice can and do accomplish many things badly?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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