inefficacious
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Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
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So it proved; either the antidote, with which I believe Bushmen often do effect wonderful cures, was stale and inefficacious, or the poison had obtained too strong a hold.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
In writing novels we novelists preach to you from our pulpits, and are keenly anxious that our sermons shall not be inefficacious.
From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
Consequently, one and the same grace may be efficacious in one case and inefficacious in another.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss