Example sentences for: ineffectual

How can you use “ineffectual” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is limp and ineffectual.

  • Other writers call Clinton "more Nero than hero," compare him to ineffectual 19 th century President Grover Cleveland, and bemoan his inability to carry through promises about health care, race, education, and job training.

  • Concerned associates of the famously ineffectual city leader's are discussing a plan to lure Barry away from a fifth mayoral run this fall.

  • The popular portrayal of bloated plutocrats has changed enormously in the last 150 years, devolving from the 19 th century's ferocious robber barons, to that guy on the Monopoly box who was always chasing his secretary around his desk in New Yorker cartoons, to the addled and ineffectual potbellies of Depression-era screwball comedy.

  • Even though this earthquake seems to have been less lethal than the August one, the country is experiencing a horrible bout of déjà vu, with reports of victims trapped under small mountains of rubble and widespread frustration at the state's ineffectual relief efforts.


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