inefficacious
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Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few Spotswoods, scattered here and there in the seats of the mighty of our modern America, might not prove inefficacious.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams
They have used the leaves in such large proportion, that the doses have been sufficient, or more than sufficient, even in their most inefficacious state.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
It is said, that though, to satisfy the Scotch Commissioners, all their requests were ostensibly granted, Henry took secret measures to render these grants entirely inefficacious.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
