impotent

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Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

Divesting of power from democratically elected officials has left minsters "impotent" in the face of a bloated civil service, she said.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024

By the time the credits rolled and my friend asked me what I thought of the movie, my resentment threatened to turn into an impotent hatred for men long gone.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

“Nobody sees what’s so funny, that’s the trouble with this outfit. We’re all a bunch of impotent, wrinkled-up prunes, if you ask me.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols