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Significados de futile en inglés

Unproductive of success.

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Producing no result or effect.

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Examples for "ineffectual"
Examples for "ineffectual"
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Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual.
Reuters
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After an ineffectual resistance he fell in the commencement of the action.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
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I said something ineffectual, to salve my conscience, and we carried on.'
The coldest blood
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Why has the southern African regional body been, in comparison, so ineffectual?
The South African
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Syrinx gave him an ineffectual grimace of sympathy, unsure what to say.
The Reality Dysfunction
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Real violence was unavailing where the opponents were in a large majority.
Lectures on Modern history
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His search was unavailing; the mysterious reptile was not to be found.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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What a contrast to the honest if unavailing efforts of the team.
The Irish Times
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They actually walked over the log in their unavailing search for him.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
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Hurstwood heard the details of the weary and unavailing search that evening.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
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There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
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Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
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There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed
Uso de futile en inglés
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Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile, he said.
Reuters
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But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile.
The Irish Times
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I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
The Guardian
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Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
The Irish Times
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I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
And the rat laughed
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I try to bring it off: futile, for there is no feeling.
Waiting for the Barbarians
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But it is futile to engage in the controversies of the past.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
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She recalled her futile attempt to save the rest of the animals.
Snow melts in spring
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There were attempts to resolve the issue, but the efforts were futile.
Ebony
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He knew it was likely futile, given the upper- and lower-case combinations.
The panic zone
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Wuhan residents reported overcrowding in hospitals and futile attempts to seek treatment.
News.com.au
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But the quest for this elusive state of normal is entirely futile.
News.com.au
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The only thing more painful than disappointment was clinging to futile hope.
Darkness unleashed
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It was futile, incoherent; her tongue seemed to dry in her mouth.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
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I used to try to have conversations with people but it's futile.
The Guardian
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The rose continued to nod in the futile way peculiar to flowers.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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