ineffectual
IPA: ɪnʌfˈɛktʃuʌɫ
adjective
- Unable or insufficient to produce effect.
- Worthless; ineffective.
- Weak, indecisive; lacking forcefulness.
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Examples of "ineffectual" in Sentences
- Fukuyama's solution...can better be described as ineffectual internationalism.
- Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission.
- Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly silenced by the threat of a lunacy commission.
- Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission.
- However, the being a little slow, a little ineffectual, is perhaps the least offensive fault she could have; and/some/fault, being human, she
- The C.C.R.B. is characterized as ineffectual even by its supporters — only 1 percent of the recent complaints have reportedly led to disciplinary action.
- Yet, even while he was weighing all the chances, he smiled to himself as he recalled the ineffectual little whistle that had gone out on the whistling wind.
- Of course the Résistance was militarily ineffectual from a conventional standpoint: It was a guerrilla movement, with a large civil component that emphasised civil desobedience and sabotage.
- The reason Batman does so as a vigilante is because the official channels were and are corrupt and ineffectual, which is another problem he's trying to fix so as to render himself unnecessary.
- Then when the Mexicans fired off a few rockets at us in ineffectual retaliation, with negligible damage to us, we would then have responded with a massive bombing campaign against Mexican civilian infrastructure, killing a hundred or more Mexicans to every one American killed.
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