inutility

Example Sentences

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They do not, at first blush, appear to discharge any very great or necessary function in life; but we must by no means, from that, infer their inutility.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

My friends finding the inutility of the attempt, proposed my returning to Bridgetown, and seeking redress from the Governor.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I by Reeve, Sophia

And have you not, while heartily wishing yourself in the saddle, felt the utter inutility of administering any counsels to the rider?

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

The young and healthy creatures of inutility had to shift; but the very old, the decrepit—those who had become stiff and grey in his uncle’s service—were pensioned off.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

The negative character—like Marie’s—just yields to the modern facts and is swept along by them into final irresponsibility and inutility.

From The Women of Tomorrow by Hard, William