forceless

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At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.

From Time Magazine Archive

A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Love, only Love her forceless numbers mean;     For thou hast left her shrine,     Nor olive more, nor vine, Shall gain thy feet to bless the servile scene.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

At the crossing of the Ny I found quarters at a farm-house owned by a feeble, forceless, gray-bearded, black-eyed man.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton