inutility

NOUN
  1. the quality of having no practical use
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How To Use inutility In A Sentence

  • Your Honours have put to my learned friend most of what I would say under that, apart from the inutility of making an order, bearing in mind the nature of the power under section 417.
  • If we are going to look at the spectrum, we should look at the whole spectrum, one of which is the relative inutility on many occasions of defamation act.
  • The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbors lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • What should have been a useful and informed discourse ends up as a parade of pretentious inutility.
  • He added that he had “the most direct intelligence,” received in a way that “forbids a public use being made of it, that Clinton has in several conversations declared his opinion of the inutility of the UNION.” Ratification
  • In chapter 14 of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin said, "On the view of each organic being and each separate organ having been specially created, how utterly inexplicable it is that parts ... should so frequently bear the plain stamp of inutility. Intelligent Design: Scientifically and Religiously Bankrupt
  • It is, however, subject to numerous limitations which are testimony to its inutility.
  • The 1952 Act takes the form, so far as grounds of revocation are concerned, of setting out an exhaustive list of possible grounds, including want of novelty, inutility and so on.
  • To convey to the mind of a stranger the ridiculous excess of the inutility of the naval establishment of China would . . . be impossible," one observer declared in 1836. The War That Turned China Against the West
  • See also Hamilton to Madison, May 19, 1788, ibid., 1102–03, in which Hamilton says he learned that Clinton “has in several conversations declared his opinion of the inutility of the UNION” from “the most direct intelligence,” although he could not make it public. Ratification
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