resultless

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Nevertheless, complicated, disturbed and persistently resultless situations always end by becoming irksome to those who are entangled in them, and by inspiring a desire for extrication.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert

Too primitive for the Society into which he had cantered must be his Far-West methods, since rusted over were his hopes and resultless his to-day.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

We have seen that for a long period the history of the colony is a mere chronicle of savage and resultless combats, and treacherous truces between the French and the formidable Iroquois confederacy.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George

War strategy is vivid, stimulating and resultful; preparation strategy is dull, plodding, and—for the strategist himself—apparently resultless.

From The Navy as a Fighting Machine by Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)

To seek from them advice or information would be an act of condescension which would be as resultless as undignified.

From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard