inefficacious
Example Sentences
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
The padlock was never fixed upon the mind, and even the lock and key, prescribed by act of parliament, were found inefficacious.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria
I therefore once more directed squill, with decoction of seneka and sal sodæ; but it was inefficacious.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
He commenced the sentence with a dignity, and ended it with a familiarity equally inefficacious.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
