inefficacious

• If these combinations have found their way into the market and are now investigated to be inefficacious, how is it that the government approved the drugs in the first place? —  Daily News & Analysis
• In his case at least the touch was inefficacious, for he was subject to scrofula all his life. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
• When even this remedy proves inefficacious, and the patient survives it, the illness is pronounced incurable Natural abnormalities and deformities are frequent enough in Tibet, and some came under my notice in nearly every camp I entered. —  In the Forbidden Land
• It might be inefficacious, or he might perish in the desert before he met any one, but he did not give up all hope of a better fate. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
• But according to the traditional belief the test proved inefficacious, unless the husband was himself innocent of the crime whereof he accused his wife Let the provisions of the law, contained in Num. —  The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

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