inefficacious
Example Sentences
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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
They have used the leaves in such large proportion, that the doses have been sufficient, or more than sufficient, even in their most inefficacious state.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
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
Had his aunt merely told him that his present would be inefficacious, he would have taken that assurance as being simply her opinion, and would have still entertained some hopes in the diamonds.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony
