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

Incipiente ictu qui vim non prompserit omnem   Dique hominesque odere; hic, pondus inutile cymbae,   Tardat iter; comites necat; hunc tu, nauta, caveto!

From Sagittulae, Random Verses by Bowling, Edward Woodley

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

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

King of England; La morale inutile; A Visit to the Doctor; and a Venus.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther