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

He commenced the sentence with a dignity, and ended it with a familiarity equally inefficacious.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

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 Jekyll, Walter

It was inefficacious, however, when one of these was involved in sin.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles