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

He now stood trembling in fear of Elizabeth’s reproof, stammering out a wild protestation of his inability to save the horse by force, and of his inefficacious attempts to save him by prayer.

From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Consequently, there can be no efficacious prayer without prevenient grace, and purely natural prayer is inefficacious for salvation.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

All this proving inefficacious, the Emperor Taitsu, as already stated, addressed to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu a remonstrance which moved the shogun to issue a strict injunction against the marauders.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)