How To Use Ineffectual In A Sentence

They soon added a try when one of their strong running centres burst through some ineffectual tackling to score under the posts.
She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
In small ways that sometimes seem ineffectual, my friends and I are looking to experience some foretaste of that moment. Christianity Today
But, at the heart of this argument, I have reached the conclusion that I'm a slightly clumsy, rather ineffectual speaker.
However, the being a little slow, a little ineffectual, is perhaps the least offensive fault she could have; and/some/fault, being human, she New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

As the ineffectual lawyer/husband, Wilson fades into the scenery like an attendant lord.
It is hard to see what more could be done other than a punitive and probably ineffectual bombing campaign.
He's repeatedly played ineffectual, wimpy characters… easily forgotten and unmemorable.
If suicide operations reflected Japanese desperation, it could not be claimed that they were ineffectual. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Fukuyama's solution...can better be described as ineffectual internationalism. Daimnation!: "Ineffectual internationalism": The failings of Francis Fukuyama
Lesser actors would have come off as comically ineffectual or abrasive and unlikable, but Howard nails the performance.
He is a well-meaning but ineffectual leader.
For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual.
Western military intervention—no matter how halfhearted and apparently ineffectual—is still sufficient to tip the balance against a rogue regime.
For once, however, this apophthegm failed; the next call was altogether as ineffectual as the former; and moreover, attended with a phenomenon which to them was equally strange and inexplicable: this was no other than such a reduction in the size of Mrs. Trunnion as might have been expected after the birth of a full-grown child. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
He has been ineffectual in parliament and widely ridiculed for his persona as the ‘quiet man’ of politics.
If it is about security, it's totally ineffectual anyway.
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
When it was a kitten some young Plymborough roughs had hurled it into the little river, and were making of it what they termed a "cockshy," pelting it with stones, fortunately ineffectually, and trying to beat it under water, when the Doctor's footman, who was crossing the bridge, saw what was going on and made an unexpected charge upon the young ruffians, effectually scattering them. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
Acceptance means that hereditary power will soon pass to his ineffectual, unsoldierly son, Richard.
In point of fact, he was remarkably ineffectual at anything but promoting a sort of genteel cronyism.
I was pretty dubious about it when I was a journalist, but now I think it's remarkably ineffectual.
He seems to me in the line of Jane Austen's failed fathers, less ineffectual than Emma's, less priggish than Anne's.
The women of his day were no doubt obstreperous and extravagant, and hence his famous but perfectly ineffectual teaching that they should not "broider their hair, or wear gold or silver or costly array," and that they shouldn't talk in meeting, and if they wanted to know anything, ask their husbands, and drink of their intellectual superiority. Fair to Look Upon
I can just envision the future debate when that ineffectuality becomes more glaringly apparent: "We'll have to authorize an additional $23 Billion to add barbed wire to the top of the fence [or any other favorite fence enhancement], because folks are climbing over [or tunneling under, or going around, da, da, da] it! See One-Man, One-Vote Questioned on National TV, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
As to the nature of the explosive and of the deflagrator, the elements of which the latter was composed, their manufacture, and the way in which they were employed, he preserved complete silence, and all attempts to worm the secret out of him remained ineffectual. Facing the Flag
There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
What happens is the CO combines with the haemoglobin in the blood to form the relatively stable carboxyhaemoglobin and renders the blood ineffectual as an oxygen carrier.
Stone, a 67-year-old man of low intelligence, partially deaf and almost blind, lived in a house with his mistress Dobinson, who was ineffectual and inadequate, and Stone's subnormal son.
IV. vii.155 (308,9) blast in proof] This, I believe, is a metaphor taken from a mine, which, in the proof or execution, sometimes breaks out with an ineffectual _blast_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
He has shown how false and useless and ineffectual the law truly is.
He quickly found the Sunday school weak and ineffectual. Christianity Today
If we're not macho thugs, we're ineffectual sissies.
The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
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As he retired, bursting with ineffectual indignation, Esdale was the first person whom Hartley chanced to meet with, and to him, stung with impatience, he communicated what he termed the infamous conduct of the The Surgeon's Daughter
I was tempted to launch a sarcastic commentary about the difference between nerds and geeks, and their ineffectual nature as insults, but decided it probably wouldn't help.
Finally, the intervention of allied troops was ineffectual and actually amateurish.
Of course the RÃ©sistance was militarily ineffectual from a conventional standpoint: It was a guerrilla movement, with a large civil component that emphasised civil desobedience and sabotage. Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers
He is ineffectual in his dual post anyway, but he still can rant and rave over it.
These difficulties would be ignored if he appeared a huge impediment, but he is ineffectual rather than terrible.
The educational systems and cultural climates in every country are so diverse that international planning would be unwise and ineffectual.
We were landed with legislators and tribunes who were ineffectual and unaccomplished, with no track record as strategic thinkers or ability to communicate. Archive 2009-06-01
They weld together mineral grains of radically different compositions and properties, rendering most techniques of mineral separation and enrichment ineffectual.
He also butted his head vainly against the British and by 1949 he was despised at home and abroad as an ineffectual playboy.
Soviet capabilities for the long range projection of power in the Third World were comparatively ineffectual.
It's the tale of a delicate, sheltered little prince who leaves his castle and ventures into a world with no patience for effeminate and ineffectual aristocrats.
Those divisions contribute to the perception that they are ineffectual.
Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink.
It's likely to dissipate resources ineffectually and spread potential damage far.
Soviet capabilities for the long range projection of power in the Third World were comparatively ineffectual.
He quickly found the Sunday school weak and ineffectual. Christianity Today
Republican Administrations have been elected to enact the dramas of ego, vanity, paranoia, bravado, resentment, and one more grand rummage through historical baggage when the material and managerial condition of the country was good enough to survive the sustained period of incompetence, ineffectuality, abuse, raging, and waste that entails. Matthew Yglesias » What Bush Got Right
His intentions were good but this measure too was largely ineffectual as the organisations survived without openly wearing uniforms. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
A milquetoast is a weak, ineffectual or bland person. Latest Articles
The performance opens at a seemingly innocuous meeting of a village fête committee, made up of a drunk vicar and an array of ineffectual local worthies who deliver a string of bawdy one-liners.
He may hypostasize the unity of nature, or, what comes to the same thing, the unity of science, in a being who is nothing since he does nothing, an ineffectual Evolution créatrice. English
Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission. Goliah
she tried ineffectually to light the primus, and Thomas came to help her
Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly silenced by the threat of a lunacy commission. Goliah
His mother, a pale, ineffectual, religious woman, dies young, leaving Archie to the care of a father he dreads and dislikes.
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, veteran anchormen of the flagship BBC Today and Newsnight programmes, today do a far better job of hauling government ministers over the coals than any ineffectual parliamentary opposition member.
He was my hero when he was Tom, but now he was Jerry he seemed weak and ineffectual.
The result - heavy industry and low value added production kept going long past its time, ineffectually, by subsidy.
He watched the flying fish burst out and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird.
Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission. Goliah
Yet, even while he was weighing all the chances, he smiled to himself as he recalled the ineffectual little whistle that had gone out on the whistling wind. On the Firing Line
They were equally ineffectual this time. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
He, after a lifetime in office, might be forgiven for expecting to have his advice taken seriously by a donnish, ineffectual Scottish peer who was chiefly known for the shapeliness of his legs and his patronage of botanists.
They were equally ineffectual this time. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Nor did they suggest that O'Neill had erred in this selection when they subsequently appeared as ineffectual substitutes.
Other times, I feel completely ineffectual, and people progress immeasurably.
Shortly later, Camillo, the heroine's elderly and ineffectual husband, was enacted by a young beanpole of a bumpkin.
His intentions were good but this measure too was largely ineffectual as the organisations survived without openly wearing uniforms. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
Briggs came across as a seemingly opportunistic and somewhat ineffectual politician, but regardless of his baboonery, the issue that he and his supporters tapped into -- "gay teachers" -- was volatile enough to find large-scale support among the electorate. Rob Epstein: What Harvey Milk Tells Us About Proposition 8
Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality. James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya!
She had certainly been an attractive woman but, as he soon discovered, she was also impractical, ineffectual and, above all, conventional.
It was the age of flounces, and this expansive tendency culminated, in the mid-'fifties, in the reign of the crinoline, against which Punch waged for many years a truceless but, as he himself admitted, a wholly ineffectual warfare. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
The Second Republic, which began with Abraham Lincoln, ended with the well-meaning but reviled and ineffectual Herbert Hoover. Welcome to the Fourth Republic
How our poor, ineffectual Mayor must envy his opposite number in Paris!
Yes, the legislation can be fairly described as a rollback of NCLB -- which is precisely what vast swaths of Americans have been demanding as the shortcomings of that mega-measure become more evident, its excesses become more painful, and its remedies prove themselves ineffectual. Michael J. Petrilli: Republicans for Education Reform
After watching Richard with the anxious sympathy of one ineffectual for another, it said: "Let me," and kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment. Living Alone
We've seen the ineffectual PAS officers at work, this week it's Stella who commits some sackable offences. Outcasts: series one, episode five
The reason Republicans are gaining in polls is that Democrats look weak and ineffectual by not being able to pass the legislation they promised, largely because of the filibuster, at the same time that Republicans can baselessly attack Democrats for going on some insane liberal spending spree based on the high deficit numbers. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
All of these narratives unfold partly as dialogues with what seem to be sympathetic but ineffectual interlocutors, perhaps lawyers.
Luftwaffe tactical support for ground operations during the rest of the campaign remained spotty and ineffectual.
It was a school of artistic expression that “vividly depicted and excoriated the corruption, frantic pleasure seeking and general demoralisation of Germany following its defeat in the war and the ineffectual Weimar Republic which governed until the arrival in power of the Nazi Party in 1933.” Book Review: Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada « A Progressive on the Prairie
They then separated; and as Folliard was passing through the hatch, he called the jailer into his own office, and strove to prevail upon him, not ineffectually, to smuggle in some wine and other comforts to the baronet. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
Speaking of ineffectual parents, we get them in the shop all the time.
A tiny clot lodging there would have sent his heart into a brief burst of the ineffectual rhythm known as fibrillation, before it stopped altogether. Back From the Dead
It was a school of artistic expression that “vividly depicted and excoriated the corruption, frantic pleasure seeking and general demoralisation [5] of Germany following its defeat in the war and the ineffectual Weimar Republic which governed until the arrival in power of the Nazi Party in 1933.” A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada » Print
Banning things is usually a pretty ineffectual way of stopping people from doing what they want.
There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
I am frankly flabbergasted that my complaints so far have proved so ineffectual.
The few scattered disturbances during the summer and autumn in behalf of the ex-dictator proved ineffectual.
The Executive's advertising campaigns contrive to be both insulting and ineffectual.
It's an invitation to cronyism and corruption or total ineffectuality.
Or if I do, it's so ludicrously truncated and ineffectual as to be useless.
The guy's a plonker and made a totally ineffectual campaign leader.
She, Nelson and other "moderates" are compromising this bill into ineffectuality. Landrieu, Nelson sound positive note after Reid meeting
This way, when he shows up to work one morning and pumps a round into his nagging, ineffectual, petty, whining, butt-sucking, candy-ass boss, that one round will split along the filed grooves and spread open the way a dumdum bullet flowers inside you to blow a bushel load of your stinking guts out through your spine. Archive 2009-03-01
When he says ineffectual, he just can't say no to people.
He was portrayed as a brilliant lyrical poet, but an ineffectual dreamer whose poetry improved when he outgrew his youthful radicalism.
The entire civil society response has been ineffectual.
She balled her fists and struck out at him, her efforts feeble and ineffectual.
He took a long drink of yet another sweet black coffee and ineffectually wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.
Anti-aircraft fire was intense but largely ineffectual, and we quickly accomplished our objectives.
Luftwaffe tactical support for ground operations during the rest of the campaign remained spotty and ineffectual.
Our ineffectual government should have done something about this appalling situation by now.
In small ways that sometimes seem ineffectual, my friends and I are looking to experience some foretaste of that moment. Christianity Today
The interlude of peace as all the naked refugees foregather in an ineffectual attempt to understand their destiny is all too brief.
He sees the creative act as being both extratemporal and ineffectual within society, as if the poet, instead of being a man, were a mere abstraction. Salvatore Quasimodo - Nobel Lecture
The regime reduced the two officially tolerated political parties to pliant ineffectuality.
fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished
Dull delivery in the classroom is one thing; teachers who lose or damage their voices by shouting too much are equally ineffectual. Times, Sunday Times
In small ways that sometimes seem ineffectual, my friends and I are looking to experience some foretaste of that moment. Christianity Today
Scientists contend that the money disbursed so far has been spent ineffectually and that a more energetic outreach effort is needed.
Saying that you don't like the choices available is weak and ineffectual.
Worse, this ineffectual debating society is wholly unrepresentative.
Only problem is, he is ineffectual and naive as a new member of the corruptible capitalist system.
The ineffectual, irritating laxative followed by the heavy purge. THE GOLDEN LION
She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
The others are ineffectual, arrogant or pleased with themselves.
Then when the Mexicans fired off a few rockets at us in ineffectual retaliation, with negligible damage to us, we would then have responded with a massive bombing campaign against Mexican civilian infrastructure, killing a hundred or more Mexicans to every one American killed. On Gaza: Huffington Post Takes Cues From Fox News « Antiwar.com Blog
In the cheap bar of the spendy restaurant, I was told that the Army Corps of Engineers had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
As opposed to cuddling misbehaving toddlers and gently sing-songing the "inappropriateness" of what they're doing (as Mellor describes one mother's ineffectually doing, after her son tried to choke Mellor's), she suggests a sequence of old-fashioned disciplinary moves. Marshal Plan
For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual.
In much the same manner, Bernard's efforts to keep his experiment with the children under wraps remain equally doomed to ineffectuality.
Precaution however was ineffectual, for their thirst was quenchless. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
Anti-aircraft fire was intense but largely ineffectual, and we quickly accomplished our objectives.
The world's leaders may have failed, the UN may have failed and the final action plan and political declaration may be ineffectual.
Besides the "yuk" & "eeew -- gross" factor, this pendulous, ineffectual, slug-like behavior could have some dramatic effects on the world around them: Globalization
There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
Dull delivery in the classroom is one thing; teachers who lose or damage their voices by shouting too much are equally ineffectual. Times, Sunday Times
But in situations like this, ineffectual gestures are usually worse than no gestures at all.
Sharon Small as the indomitable Maggie, Robert Cavanah as her ineffectual husband, Morven Christie as their hard-hearted daughter-in-law, and Anne Downie as the grumbling old woman inhabit this cluttered world as if it is their natural terrain. Men Should Weep - review
The reason Republicans are gaining in polls is that Democrats look weak and ineffectual by not being able to pass the legislation they promised, largely because of the filibuster, Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
The C.C.R.B. is characterized as ineffectual even by its supporters — only 1 percent of the recent complaints have reportedly led to disciplinary action. Incident in the 70th Precinct
Anyone know of the seemingly ineffectual changes to the way films are nominated for the documentary Oscar?
Middle-class pressure for liberal reforms was ineffectual.
The regulation of our national financial affairs has been as ineffectual as the regulation of political behaviour.
The regime reduced the two officially tolerated political parties to pliant ineffectuality.
I think pseud in nc has it right, that at this point, a campaign of non-violence would be ineffectual given the media biases at work. Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence
They weld together mineral grains of radically different compositions and properties, rendering most techniques of mineral separation and enrichment ineffectual.
During labor it is useful to overcome the great restlessness, fear and excitement experienced by nervous women, and by its calmative power rectifies jerky and ineffectual contractions.
The reason Batman does so as a vigilante is because the official channels were and are corrupt and ineffectual, which is another problem he's trying to fix so as to render himself unnecessary. Hth_the_first: Batman's Sing-Along Blog
Franklin's civilised demeanour is revealed as mere ineffectuality, and he is unable to save the murdered girl, whom he loves.
It's an invitation to cronyism and corruption or total ineffectuality.
In the worsted rosettes of the bell-ropes, in the plaster picture-frames, in the painted tea-tray and on the cups, in the pediment of the sideboard, in the ornament that crowns the barometer, in the finials of sofa and arm-chair, in the finger-plates of the "grained" door, is to be seen the ineffectual portrait or to be traced the stale inspiration of the flower. Essays
The UF and Green candidates seemed quite ineffectual, especially compared to the people they stood last time.
Sugiko has the more complicated situation, with suitors including a poor but honorable working man, a kind-hearted but ineffectual rich beau and casting agents from a film studio. Silent Films, Silent Sorrow
In its chrysalis stage fascism is but a publicistic and activistic (or 'agit-prop') phenomenon on the fringe of mainstream political culture and developments, condemned to lead a marginal existence in articles, pamphlets and books, often with negligible readerships and in the radicalism of ineffectual political factions," he writes. Michelle Goldberg: The F-Word
After a quick ineffectual glance up at Anderson's house, she ran towards the driveway, splashing spouts of mud and rainwater up at her jeans.
Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
This has the effect of fooling us into believing that this power is ineffectual.
His intentions were good but this measure too was largely ineffectual as the organisations survived without openly wearing uniforms. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Johan detests his son's ineffectuality, spewing contempt when Henrik requests a loan.
Surely the time has now come to clear our rivers rather than build more pointless, ineffectual and expensive barriers. Times, Sunday Times
No action could be colder, haughtier, more insolent in its air of supremacy and disrespect, but she had struggled against even that concession ineffectually, and it was wrested from her. Dombey and Son
Much of what constitutes educative efforts in Christian communities today is bland, feeble, and ineffectual.
The woman could not be less interested but the blackboard she gets for her dowry comes in handy as a rather ineffectual shelter against chemical weapons.
The people cannot successfully trade in the ineffectual language of protest marches and strikes, shutdowns and sloganeering that are the triggers of people in search of a constituency.
I attended, some time ago, a lady suffering from lientery, for whom I ineffectually prescribed a low dilution of China.
Several of the teachers were ineffectual at maintaining discipline.
Svein Estrithson, always beaten during Magnus's life, by and by got an agreement from the prudent Harald to _be_ King of Denmark, then; and end these wearisome and ineffectual brabbles; Harald having other work to do. Early Kings of Norway
No matter what cause those who hijacked these flights were fighting for, their tactics are unacceptable and ineffectual.
One of the other two was adding ‘Me too’, which wasn't quite as good and maybe over-egged the satirical pudding, but perhaps in its own way it parodied their ineffectual and interchangeable natures.
In short, ironchef, the fence is a costly, ineffectual means for dealing with illegal immigration or border security. Think Progress » Rep. King Designs Electrified Fence For Southern Border: ‘We Do This With Livestock All The Time’
As a staunch conservative Whig he especially loathed President Polk aliberalDemocrot, but he also despised General ZacharyTaylor, another Democrat who acted as if he too hoped to be the next president. ffis ultimate scorn, however, was reserved for Gideon J. Pillow, a pettifog - ging lawyer from a small. town in Tennessee, who was so ineffectual that Clay could not understand why Scott even bothered with him. Mexico
That sounds too much like sense, though, so the state will spend gobs of money for an ineffectual solution that will probably require the hides of any "euthanized" snakes to be discarded. On Hunting Pythons in Florida
The ineffectual government was being blamed. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Homeopathic remedies to consider include mix vomica 6th to 30th when there is frequent but ineffectual desire to ease oneself; natrum mur. 6th to 12th; bryonia 6th to 30th when there is no desire; lycopodium 30th when there is difficulty passing stools, tendency toward bloating, and gas after meals; and sulphur 30th when there are lower abdominal feelings of heat and heaviness with burning and itching of the anus. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
Your government is proving itself to be ineffectual when it comes to looking after its own people.
(For the medically inclined, this bluish coloring is called cyanosis and it occurs when a child becomes hypoxic because of the oxygen depletion that comes with pneumonia and the inability to breathe.) Salmon’s criticism characterized the idea as somewhere between “ineffectual” and “downright offensive”. Dr. Orin Levine: You Think Blue Jeans For Pneumonia Is Ridiculous?
In his view, the Commission remains a toothless and ineffectual body.
This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
She is animatedruns and tries to force the door, but ineffectuallyagain despairing, is crossing the stage, her hands clasped together, and uplifted eyes, observes the key hanging at the top of wing, R.H. Convinced of its being the key, runs towards itfinds it impossible to reach itsteps upon the chair, and upon the tablestill finds she cannot reach itturns for the ladder, finds it secured. Obi Pantomime Act II, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
The interlude of peace as all the naked refugees foregather in an ineffectual attempt to understand their destiny is all too brief.
Better to be seen as an angry black man than a weak, ineffectual nithing. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thursday Night Open Thread
In recent months, referring to much of online activism as ineffectual "slacktivism" has become increasingly popular.
He is around forty, sandy haired, ineffectual and weak chinned.
Health professionals are mobilising to condemn the government, propose major structural reforms, and hammer the ineffectual minister.
Surely the time has now come to clear our rivers rather than build more pointless, ineffectual and expensive barriers. Times, Sunday Times
What happens is the CO combines with the haemoglobin in the blood to form the relatively stable carboxyhaemoglobin and renders the blood ineffectual as an oxygen carrier.
an ineffectual ruler
As much as I don't want those resources put to ineffectual uses, I also don't want it to go to waste since it's not like there is an excess of resources to go around.
All of this proved to be at least as ineffectual, disruptive, and ill-conceived as the previous urban renewal regime.
There always is the risk that it will be ineffectual or go too far and overregulate. The New Consumer Bureau: a To-Do List
Cameron stood on the porch, looking out into nowhere, feeling particularly cowardly and ineffectual.
Rory was pummelling him with his fists, striking ineffectual blows at his chest and shoulders, swiping at his face with an open palm. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Or to put it the other way around, an elaborate contrapuntal texture with emancipated dissonance is a perfect metaphor for the urgent but ineffectual efforts that Pierrot is making.
His first, Kristine Gebbie, resigned after being criticized by AIDS activists for being ineffectual.
the therapy was ineffectual
Even the ineffectual father seems genuine—not the stereotypical buffoon.

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