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
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
Stretched on the agonizing couch of pain, All human aid inefficacious, vain, Where shall his tortured spirit rest?
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
I therefore once more directed squill, with decoction of seneka and sal sodæ; but it was inefficacious.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
