inefficacious
Example Sentences
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stretched on the agonizing couch of pain, All human aid inefficacious, vain, Where shall his tortured spirit rest?
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
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 Trollope, Anthony
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 Bryden, H.A.
