inútil
futile ; useless ; deadwood [dead wood] ; helpless ; ineffectual ; inutile ; wasteful ; good-for-nothing ; vain ; duffer ; toothless ; ineffective ; unavailing.
To describe discursively all that an imaginatively successful scene in fiction or drama or poem says, means and is would be futile.
Numerous titles which have to be entered under the title, as you prescribed are completely useless.
Ostensibly, the maneuver was accomplished to curb patronage abuses and make it easier to dismiss deadwood employees in the long run.
In imposing penalties for book stealing libraries are particularly helpless.
A perusal of book reviews shows that many parental figures fall into one of two categories - ineffectual or antagonistic.
However, only certain philosophies are deemed relevant to social scientific inquiry; linguistic theory & deconstructionism are identified as inutile.
It is thus uneconomical and wasteful of space in the catalogue to provide entries for documents under all synonymous subject headings.
He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
Some users hope that market forces will force some of the smaller hosts out of the marketplace, but with cheaper telecommunications and computing technology this seems something of a vain hope.
Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
This is what happens when a company does not listen to their customers, you end up with a toothless and ineffective policy.
Too often US library professionals have difficulty 'code switching' in order to accommodate the foreign students' needs and resort to familiar but ineffective patterns.
Shrigley finds humour in flat depictions of the inconsequential, the unavailing and the bizarre - although he is far fonder of violent or otherwise disquieting subject matter.
algo inútil
a dead dog
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
cosa inútil
dead horse
And if the topic does become tomorrow's carrion, it would not, perhaps, be inappropriate that it was buried under its own dead horse subject heading.
esfuerzo inútil
wasted energy
However, the time spent at the front end of the process saves frustration and wasted energy farther into the process.
misión inútil
fool's errand
I'd like to explain that treating online poker as though it is a science based on mathematic principles is a fool's errand for most of us.
objeto inútil
useless object
The human race has been making useless objects from the very earliest times.
resultar inútil
prove + unavailing
Every effort to renew her strength proved unavailing, and she died in 1867, greatly beloved and lamented.
ser inútil
fire + blanks
Real Madrid spurned the chance to replace Barcelona at the top of the Spanish first division as they fired blanks in a frustrating 0-0 draw at Osasuna.
ser un auténtico inútil
be a dead loss
There is now never the need for someone with a hair problem to feel that the problem cannot be solved; hair loss is no longer a dead loss!.
tarea inútil
exercise in futility
They're exercises in futility, a waste of precious time.
