Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inefficacious manner; without efficacy or effect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Without efficacy or effect.
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- adverb Without
efficacy oreffect .
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- adverb in an ineffective manner
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Examples
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Establishment of such a dedicated authority is unlikely to cause any dent on the resources of the state as financial and manpower resources can easily be found by winding up the ineffectual MP Lakes Conservation Authority and redeployment from departments and other agencies that currently inefficaciously deal with this subject.
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Incompletely and highly inefficaciously, I might add.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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St. Thomas treats of it under the name maledictio, and says that imprecation may be made either efficaciously and by way of command, as when made by God, or inefficaciously and as a mere expression of desire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Is it not rather to be apprehended, if they were possessed of the powers before described, that the individual members would be induced to use them, on many occasions, very timidly and inefficaciously, for fear of losing their popularity and future election?
Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903
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Is it not rather to be apprehended, if they were possessed of the powers before described, that the individual members would be induced to use them, on many occasions, very timidly and inefficaciously, for fear of losing their popularity and future election?
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852
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Is it not rather to be apprehended, if they were possessed of the powers before described, that the individual members would be induced to use them, on many occasions, very timidly and inefficaciously, for fear of losing their popularity and future election?
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852
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Is it not rather to be apprehended, if they were possessed of the powers before described, that the individual members would be induced to use them, on many occasions, very timidly and inefficaciously, for fear of losing their popularity and future election?
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Rational Review 2009
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