ineffectuality
- a word derived from ineffectual.
Example Sentences
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She has taken some seemingly principled steps to protect the country from the worst of her own party, but only once her ineffectuality was guaranteed.
From Slate • May 4, 2022
They are smart enough to know they’re objects, fully cognizant of their ineffectuality.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2020
His abbreviated performance was both candid and deceptive – a glimpse of his own dithering ineffectuality, and an admission that royalty is primarily an acting role.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2018
Unruly as his rhetorical strategies are, Ventura is ultimately quite convincing about the ineffectuality of the War on Drugs, and on the contradictions and corruptions of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a particular bugbear of his.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2016
There was a strange air of ineffectuality about the three men, as they sprawled at table, smoking and reflecting vaguely on their own condition.
From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
