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
My counsels and remonstrances were not wholly inefficacious.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
The padlock was never fixed upon the mind, and even the lock and key, prescribed by act of parliament, were found inefficacious.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria
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
