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

The proffered grace remained inefficacious simply because the sinner rejected it of his own free will.

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

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

The puerilities of inefficacious charms and mysterious ceremonies with which he deludes his clients are not all.

From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Jekyll, Walter