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

The proffered grace remained inefficacious simply because the sinner rejected it of his own free will.

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

The ordinary remedies—such as salt dissolved in water—are inefficacious.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

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