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

My counsels and remonstrances were not wholly inefficacious.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

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 Preuss, Arthur

The ordinary remedies—such as salt dissolved in water—are inefficacious.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert