impotent
Example Sentences
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They look even better when you factor in that only two of those games have been at home - with a previously impotent and misfiring team putting eight goals past Falkirk and Kilmarnock.
From BBC
The lack of clear policy from the Americans has left Arab countries feeling “impotent,” he added.
From Washington Post
"Tim said he didn't want to take pills. At some point in the conversation Tim told me he was also impotent, and I responded that there were pills for that, too," Mr Schofield said.
From BBC
“It’s a strange, cowardly and impotent position to take — that is basically surrendering,” Mr. Wax said.
From New York Times
“I’m alive; I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man,” he said in 2011 upon revealing that the procedure had left him impotent.
From Los Angeles Times
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