inutile

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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

Au nom de Dieu, qu’il n’y ait rien que ce qu’on peut manger, car vous savez que c’est inutile pour moi; de plus j’en ai scrupule.” 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

Quamvis Pontica pinus, Silvæ filia nobilis, Jactes et genus et nomen inutile.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

She became a theologian in petticoats and wrote numerous inutile books about pin-points in matters ecclesiastical.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

There is a lot of inutile talk about "significant form" by propagandists of the New Æsthetic.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James