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 Gilman, Lawrence

Quo modo stulte? etiamne, si reipublicae conducebat? potest autem, quod inutile reipublicae sit, id cuiquam 20 civi utile esse?

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

La coupe de son esprit, quelque brillante quelle puisse etre, n'est pas telle qui me charme et luisera par la suite pour le mains inutile.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

He should use as by right and from instinct the material which lay inutile at her woman’s disposal.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin