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Meanings of inutility in English

Portuguese
inutilidade
Catalan
inutilitat

The quality of having no practical use.

inutilidade
Synonyms
Examples for "uselessness"
Examples for "uselessness"
1
Gibson had a sudden sense of the uselessness of his fire power.
Ancient shores
2
We were right about the uselessness of our going to the hospital.
Bones Are Forever
3
But he realised the uselessness of it all, and abandoned the impulse.
The Man in the Twilight
4
Seeing the uselessness of their efforts the Dahomans gradually slackened their fire.
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
5
And slowly the uselessness, the hopelessness of his being there overcame her.
The Glimpses of the Moon
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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Translations for inutility
Portuguese
inutilidade
Inutility through the time
Inutility across language varieties
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