inefficacious
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Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
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The puerilities of inefficacious charms and mysterious ceremonies with which he deludes his clients are not all.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll
It is my belief, however, that, had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.
From The Scarlet Letter by Mary Hallock Foote
It is, at least, quite certain that other means will prove inefficacious, if this be not superadded.
From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by A.C. Baldwin