(a.) Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) In repeated reconciliation talks overseen by the UN, the ineffectual GNA has so far failed to reach a political compromise with its Tobruk-based rivals in the east, noticeably Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army.
(2) Our data suggest that 5-FU and ISO, at the doses used, were ineffectual in the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
(3) The importance of vigorous contact tracing is underlined by the contrast between the incidence of PPNG strains in the United Kingdom and the larger numbers found in areas where they are hyperendemic and where contact tracing is ineffectual or non-existent.
(4) The US dabbled ineffectually in helping the rebel cause, hobbled by uncertainty over the groups it was dealing with.
(5) From his sickbed in Saudi Arabia, the president agreed to reopen negotiations over the GCC plan – with the aim of drawing out the transitional period – albeit only with the ineffectual opposition parties, not the people.
(6) An uncoordinated and ineffectual sucking reflex is a major manifestation of neonatal narcotic abstinence and may have important consequences for the infant's subsequent well being.
(7) Therefore, SS may represent a situation in which genetically predisposed individuals (i.e., HLA-DR3-DQA4-DQB2) have a persistent but ineffectual T cell immune response against EBV at its site of latency.
(8) When both spouses described their mates as transgressive and themselves as ineffectual responders to transgression, the dysfunction reported by both spouses was pronounced.
(9) Thus the formation of such damage by individual OH radicals formed by ionizing radiation would be similarly ineffectual.
(10) A new government should tear up "ineffectual" lending agreements with Britain's taxpayer-owned banks and force them to lend billions of pounds more to small and medium sized businesses, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said today .
(11) In its turn, interaction is subdivided in three classes (uni-effectual, bis-ineffectual, bis-effectual) in the last of which is placed the most relevant of the interactions, that is synergism, subclassified, at its turn, as additive, super and infra-additive.
(12) The indolent behavior of our six cases, and the finding that the molecular structure of the t(8;14) in these cases does not follow the pattern of breakpoint sites and point mutations defined in other histologic subtypes of NHL with this translocation, suggest that the t(8;14) in these cases is cytogenetically and molecularly distinct from the t(8;14) seen in high-grade NHLs, and is relatively ineffectual in terms of MYC deregulation, or that other genetic elements at these chromosomal sites may be involved.
(13) The unrest is the latest upheaval to rock the troubled central African country , which has been plagued by multiple wars and weakened by ineffectual governance for decades.
(14) Low-molecular-weight nonfucosylated oligosaccharide fragments up to the octasaccharide Glc4Xyl3Gal (obtained by endoglucanase action on tamarind seed xyloglucan) were ineffectual as fucosyl acceptors but inhibited the fucosylation of endogenous as well as of added xyloglucan.
(15) Myners, in his trademark pristine white open-neck shirt and dark suit, is turning his attention to overpaid City bankers, ineffectual City investors and "insidious" pay consultants.
(16) Balotelli was ineffectual and frustratingly lazy whereas Rodgers surely made a mistake selecting Dejan Lovren when Kolo Touré had excelled in the Bernabéu.
(17) It could be said that Michael Carrick's reputation was pummelled but he was abandoned almost entirely by ineffectual colleagues such as Anderson.
(18) The radiologic signs of diabetic gastric neuropathy consist of ineffectual peristalsis, solid gastric residue, elongated sausage-shaped stomach, gastric barium retention, and duodenal bulb atony.
(19) The filtrate is ineffectual against Mycobacteria and Fungi (yeast or mould) at the concentration used.
(20) Winnie, meanwhile, raged ineffectually against the emotional cunning of the woman she called "that concubine".
Wanker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(2) Disclosure of the arrest, which came after Hilton shouted "wanker" at train staff when he failed to produce his ticket on time, comes days after the leaking of emails he sent to Tory MPs.
(3) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
(4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
(5) The federal agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has asked the broadcast watchdog to investigate outspoken radio host Kyle Sandilands for calling him a “wanker” and other insults on air.
(6) In EastEnders up to 10 years ago, when he was running it, "language was much more brutal, characters used words such as 'git', 'bloody', 'wanker', which are now no longer acceptable".
(7) It's a wanker, basically, but an advanced one; one you "feed" using a smartphone app that lets you design custom-built sandwiches according to its whims.
(8) The favourite phrase I used to get whenever I went to Liverpool – as soon as I got off a train or out of my car – was: ‘Hey, Bob, tell that Tony Wilson he’s a wanker.’ I must have had that delivered to me thousands of times.
(9) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
(10) I'd say: 'Why are you acting like a complete wanker?'
(11) Wankers," I said, fingering my cup, wondering if that was what the clay wrangler wanted me to say.
(12) He's already telling me what a wanker I am, and he's clearly not going to leave.
(13) Ian Hislop , a team captain on Have I Got News For You, declined to join a host of high-profile figures in signing a public letter warning against cuts to the BBC to avoid appearing to be an “overpaid wanker”, he has revealed.
(14) He then reportedly started shouting "wanker" and was arrested and taken to the New Street's rail police station.
(15) He has never taken drugs, because back in the 80s, "one or two of my colleagues started acting like complete wankers.
(16) ‘Terrific wankerer’, ‘sadistic nurse’: Boris strikes again (and again) All of this means that our foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, cannot even hope to win awards for undiplomatic language, however often he mentions the US president’s part-Kenyan ancestry, calls the Turkish president a “terrific wankerer”, quips that the only reason he “wouldn’t visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” or that Hillary Clinton looks like “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.
(17) Johnny Borrell is a wanker because he's a wanker, not because Razorlight got massive."
(18) And sometimes, at least in public, they do really act like wankers.
(19) It happened today when dutifully reporting that Steve Hilton, one of the three or four most important people in David Cameron's working life, called a stroppy ticket collector at Birmingham New St station a "wanker."
(20) "Because we've spent so many evenings and weekends writing together, the fact that we can now do that during the day feels very precious," says Gonzalez, who then catches himself and says: "I sound like a complete wanker."