The streets are mean, the temples ineffective, and though a few fine houses exist they are hidden away in gardens or down alleys whose filth deters all but the invited guest.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— not producing an intended effect : INEFFECTUAL
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Macmillan
— something that is ineffective does not work correctly or does not do what you want it to do
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Collins
— If you say that something is ineffective, you mean that it has no effect on a process or situation.
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1 use of ‘ineffective’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster