inefficacious

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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

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

A few Spotswoods, scattered here and there in the seats of the mighty of our modern America, might not prove inefficacious.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison

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