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

He commenced the sentence with a dignity, and ended it with a familiarity equally inefficacious.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, as remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils that can only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas.—Mazzini.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The omniscient God-man here asserts the existence of graces which remained inefficacious in Corozain and Bethsaida, though had they been given to the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they would have proved effective.

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