nugatory

However, that sort of reference was nugatory because the money did not follow the patient.

The slow dissolution of the Empire made such efforts nugatory.

When nugatory efforts did not help, the company was nationalised to prevent it from going bankrupt.

Without some insight into its will respecting our actions religion is nugatory and vain.

What do people do in a world that feels "more and more nugatory"?

Call it the march of ecstasy or the poem of accuracy: either way, the effect is nugatory.

That ideal was there, though still nugatory, when Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal.

All the care, therefore, previously directed to the securing of doors and windows after nightfall appeared nugatory.

And sure, it was just some pseudo-philosophical, nugatory babble, but where had it come from?

The nugatory value of the gold notwithstanding, surely the patient is billed for parts as well as labor.

Social custom made this proviso almost nugatory.

But this technology is inappropriate for the nugatory wrongdoing that bedevils you - at least until you've exhausted more courteous methods.

If this power were not conceded to the court, the very power of judicial review would be rendered nugatory and the entire exercise meaningless.

Both of those experiences are reduced to something pretty much nugatory by e-readers, and so e-books are not for me.

If the principal defaults and the surety turns out to be insolvent, the purpose of the bond is rendered nugatory.

I strove to give a slower motion to my thoughts, and to regulate a confusion which became painful; but my efforts were nugatory.

An honest accounting, however, would have noted-indeed, emphasized-that the United States acted at once to render the accords nugatory.

To someone who asked, "Why does Anita Brookner use hard words like rebarbative and nugatory?"

Whatever's nasty, ignoble or nugatory in this world, the crooner's mix of soothing vocals and reassuring trivialities are bound to put things right.

Discussions of the rival policies of free trade and protection invariably leave this limitation out of account, and are therefore nugatory.

If so, the Soviet Union had violated the treaty that forbids production of biological weapons, proving it would cheat on solemn agreements for nugatory gain.

But in real life there's always a cost, and the political effects of McAuliffe's rehabilitation of the Democrats among the wealthy may be nugatory.

Plain to see, the Merseians had some ulterior motive in asking for a conference as nugatory per se as this.

(Try "nugatory," which he missed on his S.A.T.'s years ago.

They were not particularly inspiring, though Michael van der Plas has shown that neither were they nugatory.