inutile

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Except that instead of soldiers brandishing rifles, we have the tao-tao dressed in camouflage: immobile, inutile, and unthreatening.

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  1. adjective Lacking in utility or serviceability; not useful.

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  • At City Hall, Mayor Tomas Osmeña fumed over the incident, saying the LTO and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) are "inutile" for failing to take away the franchise of participating drivers and operators. —  Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
  • The Gabriela solon also pointed out that Nicole has the right to decide what's best for herself, considering all the pressures she experienced and her disappointment over the inutile justice system of the current regime. —  Davao Today
  • It is true that it would have been inutile, for no incident occurred to put the colonists to any painful trial Cyrus Harding even observed that if by chance the communication between the unknown and the tenants of Granite House had ever been established through the granite, and if Top's instinct had as it were felt it, there was no further sign of it during this period. —  The Secret of the Island
  • The B-flat is a pretty suite, the C-major inutile--always barring the lyric episodes--the D-minor a thing of shreds and patches, and the Rhenish_--muddy as the river Rhine in winter time The E-flat piano Quintet will live and also the piano concerto--originally a fantasia in one movement. —  Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
  • Ce spectacle, que d'aprčs sčs préjugés monastiques, il croyoit imposant, et qui n'étoit que burlesque, ne produisit rien, pas męme la risée du Tartare; et peu content sans doute d'un voyage trčs-inutile il revint en rendre compte au roi Louis n'étoit plus en Syrie. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin inūtilis : in-, not; see in-1 + ūtilis, useful; see utile.

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  1. = French inutile = Provencal inutil = Spanish inútil = Portuguese inutil = Italian inutile, from Latin inutilis, useless, from in- privative + utilis, useful: see utility.
 

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