Not producing an intended effect.
1
Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile, he said.
2
But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile.
3
I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
4
Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
5
I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
1
Real violence was unavailing where the opponents were in a large majority.
2
His search was unavailing; the mysterious reptile was not to be found.
3
What a contrast to the honest if unavailing efforts of the team.
4
They actually walked over the log in their unavailing search for him.
5
Hurstwood heard the details of the weary and unavailing search that evening.
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
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.
