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

Imperfectly mixed coal-tar-creosote dips are liable to poison animals even when not used in stronger solutions than that recommended by the manufacturers, and are also likely to be inefficacious.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

In fact, the anathema remained inefficacious within and without.313 In vain did the pope employ the Jesuits to raise or indispose the European courts against the Venetians.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

Had his aunt merely told him that his present would be inefficacious, he would have taken that assurance as being simply her opinion, and would have still entertained some hopes in the diamonds.

From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony