Ineffectual

Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly silenced by the threat of a lunacy commission. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then when the Mexicans fired off a few rockets at us in ineffectual retaliation, with negligible damage to us, we would then have responded with a massive bombing campaign against Mexican civilian infrastructure, killing a hundred or more Mexicans to every one American killed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of course the Résistance was militarily ineffectual from a conventional standpoint: It was a guerrilla movement, with a large civil component that emphasised civil desobedience and sabotage. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission. ❋ Unknown (1910)

However, the being a little slow, a little ineffectual, is perhaps the least offensive fault she could have; and/some/fault, being human, she ❋ Unknown (1893)

The reason Batman does so as a vigilante is because the official channels were and are corrupt and ineffectual, which is another problem he's trying to fix so as to render himself unnecessary. ❋ Hth_the_first (2008)

Fukuyama's solution...can better be described as ineffectual internationalism. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The C.C.R.B. is characterized as ineffectual even by its supporters — only 1 percent of the recent complaints have reportedly led to disciplinary action. ❋ Brenner, Marie (1997)

Yet, even while he was weighing all the chances, he smiled to himself as he recalled the ineffectual little whistle that had gone out on the whistling wind. ❋ Hamilton Brock Fuller (1905)

Between a week or two after the Brown election and the week before passage of health care reform, as just one example, his administration was characterized as ineffectual and rudderless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He called the ineffectual cease-fire "a diplomatic initiative that would have ended the conflict." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't know Dean White, having only met her briefly a few times, but from her reputation the word "ineffectual" has nothing to do with her. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, if anyone is familiar with "ineffectual", it's John McCain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unless you're deliberately parsing Billy Glad's comment to frame it in the worst possible way, and stretching it into straw-man status, it's pretty clear that Billy Glad is referring to the commenters here (the "you guys"), not as the ENTIRE universe of those who (in Billy's opinion) are mounting "ineffectual" attacks, but as PART OF THAT UNIVERSE. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You know, there is a term for what Obama has done by looking "ineffectual" over the summer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The beauty is - with Obama being "ineffectual" at this over the summer, there's likely enough of this caliber in terms of raw McCain Gaffery to drop a new one every day between now and the election itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And something awful will happen: Obama and his naivite 'and lack of a power base will get steamrolled into a kind of ineffectual nothingness by the established beltway money mob. ❋ Unknown (2008)

an ineffectual [campaign] ❋ JLcorp (2013)

He won't show us [the grant] [proposal]. He's [worried] someone will steal his ineffectual property. ❋ T Davies (2008)

"[i will] not be blackmailed by some ineffectual, privileged, effete, soft-penised debutante" ❋ Crovelium (2022)

[NSW] is a [shitshow] in this pandemic because the NSW premier is [ineffectual]. ❋ RealTalk000 (2021)