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

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

And those victories became more numerous and splendid when, after two years of inefficacious friendship with us, the Spaniard and the Dutchman joined our enemies.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville

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