(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".
Wuss
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) WE’RE MEANT TO BE ON WUSS ISLAND,” I yell, stumbling and covering my head and waving my arms at the same time to ward it off.
(2) And we wanted to make this clear, that we had tried to talk to Kembrah Pfahler, the woman behind the band in question, in case you assumed we were a bunch of wusses who couldn't quite stomach engaging in conversation with this force of nature, this fearsome creature of the night.
(3) Any man who looks after his children is seen as a wuss – and not career compatible.
(4) From this moment on MQ and I point to the walking birds and the impotent spiders we spot on our hikes and yell “WUSS ISLAND!” as we pass.
(5) Cameron: "Let them eat stag's liver" … Osborne: More than you did, you big, fat wuss.
(6) Sorry: not sorry The president says sorry surprisingly often, but uses it only in the passive-aggressive sense of “I’m not sorry at all, but I’m saying sorry in order to imply that you’re such a wuss that the facts hurt your feelings, you idiot.” Thus: “Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.” (Not sorry.)
(7) Even some plants on the island that have thorns on the mainland do not have thorns on Wuss Island because there is nothing here to attack them.
(8) But despite being a wuss on many levels, there is one thing I’m not scared of: spiders.
(9) Now, every Trump voter sees two congenital wusses who can only win by teaming up, two loser would-be antagonists so weak that even their insults need a partnership.
(10) After the Wuss Island revelations we dine on medium rare steak (perfect) and kingfish with pigfish as the entree.
(11) "Charles Tavistock is a wuss," opines Jeanette Phillips.
(12) Before dinner we sit in on a presentation by the naturalist Ian Hutton, which leads to MQ and I rechristening Lord Howe as Wuss Island.