ineffectual

He said the "ineffectual near silence" from police, prosecutors and the government after the attacks led to disinformation that sparked widespread rioting in the days after the attack.

Ministerial functions like car registration and Medicare enrollment and, sure, passport issuance always take the brunt of grousing about the government being so ineffectual.

They have been ineffectual in the establishment of any semblance of an organisation able to take over inside the country if the opportunity arises.

Those same ingredients make him utterly ineffectual as a world leader.

In fact, her inner monologue in one tense chapter is: "Think, you stupid ineffectual bit*h, think!"