inefficacious

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Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, the anathema remained inefficacious within and without.313 In vain did the pope employ the Jesuits to raise or indispose the European courts against the Venetians.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

In writing novels we novelists preach to you from our pulpits, and are keenly anxious that our sermons shall not be inefficacious.

From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony

Their united efforts were vain, however; and even the remedies suggested by Apollo, god of medicine, proved inefficacious.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)