Example sentences for: ineffectual

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

  • What I noticed about Forbes' performance tonight was that it was exactly the same as every other Forbes performance--thoroughly dishonest, numbingly repetitive, and increasingly obnoxious in its gratuitous and ineffectual anti-Washington demagoguery.

  • 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.

  • Conservative satirist Christopher Buckley advises Gore to hire other ineffectual literary celebrities at absurd rates.

  • Meanwhile, from high above, Cupid pisses from a passing cloud onto Jupiter's thunderbolts--surely a novel (if ineffectual) way to cool a god's ardor.

  • He's loyal to his president, and that loyalty makes him look ineffectual.


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