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

Il y a pourtant un côté par lequel la quatrième églogue peut être rattachée à l’histoire du Christianisme; elle nous révèle un certain état des âmes qui n’a pas été inutile à ses rapides progrès.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

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

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

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

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