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Meanings of ineffectual in English
Not producing an intended effect.
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Usage of ineffectual in English
1
Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual.
2
After an ineffectual resistance he fell in the commencement of the action.
3
I said something ineffectual, to salve my conscience, and we carried on.'
4
Why has the southern African regional body been, in comparison, so ineffectual?
5
Syrinx gave him an ineffectual grimace of sympathy, unsure what to say.
6
An explosion or insanity comes if their wills smoulder in ineffectual silence.
7
The stars came out, shedding their ineffectual glimmerings on the light-widowed earth.
8
The Nemesis of this self-centred spirit is that of being totally ineffectual.
9
There were two ineffectual thuds against the door and then a crash.
10
But the nearest and readiest way is taken to make them ineffectual.
11
She lifted her hands to her head in a dazed, ineffectual way.
12
All day they made ineffectual attempts to extricate themselves from the mountains.
13
She lost her way in them, fluttering ineffectual, gently hurried and bird-like.
14
A League, after all, seems ineffectual; she would break up any League.
15
Both had their mouths open and were flapping about like ineffectual fish.
16
Nor is it for densely foggy weather, for here it is ineffectual.
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Ineffectual across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common