ineffectual

He's too old and ineffectual to do them any good.

The Government seemed to many to be ineffectual and out of touch.

He was an ineffectual man who came off dangerous at first reading.

Many of the groups they once worked for have labeled them ineffectual.

Mary's husband turns out to be ineffectual in many more ways than one.

We've been completely ineffectual in trying to guard against them.

This is done to give effect to the contract, rather than to make it ineffectual.

She was making an ineffectual effort to keep herself from trembling.

A nice man, if ineffectual: that was the official view.

I was frail and ineffectual, I'd come all this way for nothing.

Now, suddenly, she saw the old woman as a pathetic ineffectual figure.

After an ineffectual defense, the French also put up the white flag.

However, in the end the line was ineffectual for its intended purpose.

But an artist without a critical eye is even more ineffectual.

The fact is that an army has to be united in purpose, or it's ineffectual.

"What it does say is that the price cuts were ineffectual."

But the commission has been criticized by many people as being ineffectual.

He said the board's governance of the school system was "ineffectual."

God had called on Stuart, and here he was, apparently ineffectual.

This is a far cry from your present ineffectual status.

A second and third appeal on my part were equally ineffectual.

During this period, it became even more corrupt and ineffectual.

For each of them, only an ineffectual, essentially negative response was possible.

In the last few years critics have accused the office of being ineffectual.

The three of them stared at me, the ineffectual alien.