Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The quality of being ineffectual; ineffectualness.
- That which is ineffectual; something that fails to produce the desired effect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Ineffectualness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
ineffectual .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lacking the power to be effective
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Examples
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She, Nelson and other "moderates" are compromising this bill into ineffectuality.
Landrieu, Nelson sound positive note after Reid meeting 2009
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And the image of Democratic ineffectuality could be replaced by the lack of positive solutions coming from the right.
Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster 2010
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Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya! James Moore 2010
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Republican Administrations have been elected to enact the dramas of ego, vanity, paranoia, bravado, resentment, and one more grand rummage through historical baggage when the material and managerial condition of the country was good enough to survive the sustained period of incompetence, ineffectuality, abuse, raging, and waste that entails.
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Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya! James Moore 2010
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Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya! James Moore 2010
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Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya! James Moore 2010
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I can just envision the future debate when that ineffectuality becomes more glaringly apparent: "We'll have to authorize an additional $23 Billion to add barbed wire to the top of the fence [or any other favorite fence enhancement], because folks are climbing over [or tunneling under, or going around, da, da, da] it!"
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Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya! James Moore 2010
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Perry painted the state an even brighter red, in part, because his democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, suffered from the heartbreak of ineffectuality.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya! James Moore 2010
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