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

It is my belief, however, that, had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.

From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock

Sad and inefficacious, as a remedy, would be solitude, with its mysterious voice, and the ardent contemplations that it awakens, for a passion so fondly awakened in the young heart of Fabian.

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

Every argument was brought forward to induce him to stay in La Rochelle, but every argument proved inefficacious.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)