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inefficacious

[in-ef-i-kay-shuhs] / ˌɪn ɛf ɪˈkeɪ ʃəs /


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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

They were as unfriendly to the old confederation as to the system now proposed, but bore it with more patience because it was wholly inefficacious.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford

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 William Withering

Failing in its usual effect, the medicine was no longer continued; but every thing that was tried proved equally inefficacious, and he did not long survive.

From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering


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