inutile

"Ils se flattrent de mriter le ciel en se rendant parfaitement inutile la terre" (p. xviii).

It is true that it would have been inutile, for no incident occurred to put the colonists to any painful trial.

As Christy's plan was not in order, would be inutile, the business of the visitors at the islands was finished.

The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.