inutile
Example Sentences
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Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile.
From Time Magazine Archive
There will always be, naturally enough, persons who must inevitably regard such a work as that for which he and Maeterlinck are now responsible as, for the most part, vain, inutile, even preposterous.
From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman
One after another these precautions were rendered inutile.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Although the worthlessness of Algæ has been proverbial, as in the "alga inutile" of Horace and Virgil's "projecta vilior alga," they are not without importance in botanical economics.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
A light coat with many admirably unnecessary capes and adorably inutile ribbons floated downward from her shoulders.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
