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Meanings of inutility in English

Portuguese
inutilidade
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inutilitat

The quality of having no practical use.

      inutilidade
      Usage of inutility in English
      1
      I am convinced of the inutility of the prolongation of this war.
      The Devil's Paw
      2
      The inutility of her best efforts, however, palsied the poor old gentlewoman.
      The House of the Seven Gables
      3
      Lumbermen, foes to idleness and inutility, swarm again about their winter's trophies.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
      4
      The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
      Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
      5
      She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering.
      The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
      6
      But I must convey the inutility of such effort by inference, not falsity.'
      The Man
      7
      While putting his things in order he thought of the inutility of decorated rooms.
      En Route
      8
      Our own dog is a standing example of canine inutility.
      The Fiend's Delight
      9
      From these concessions however we are by no means authorised to infer their inutility.
      Four Early Pamphlets
      10
      Nay, do they not talk of the inutility of evidence?
      The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
      11
      Spain felt at last the inutility of her cries.
      Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
      12
      Afterwards, his tormentors, wearied by the inutility of their violence, left him forgotten in the dungeon.
      The Shadow of the Cathedral
      13
      But the inutility of such productions is obvious.
      The History of Sumatra / Containing An Account Of The Government...
      14
      She laid her hand lightly upon his arm, warning him of the inutility of his protest.
      The Web of Life
      15
      And will there never arise a man superior to this man, who will demonstrate its inutility?
      Ten Years' Exile / Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Lif...
      16
      And she wrung her hands in intensity of conviction of the inutility of aught she could do.
      Curious, if True / Strange Tales
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      Inutility through the time
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