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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bit ineffectual" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that is somewhat ineffective or not producing the desired results.
Example: "The team's efforts to improve sales were a bit ineffectual, as they did not see any significant increase in revenue."
Alternatives: "somewhat ineffective" or "a little unproductive."
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A bit ineffectual.
David Cameron sometimes seems a bit ineffectual, as though he's only really in it for the weekends at Chequers and the chance to annoy Boris Johnson.
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Then there's the fact that unions can be a bit bureaucratic and ineffectual at talking to their members—one Unite member I spoke to wasn't even aware there was a strike on.
The fact that unions can be a bit bureaucratic and ineffectual at talking to their members must also be taken into account – one Unite member I spoke to wasn't even aware there was a strike on.
"He was shouting and threatening and doing a bit of pushing, but he was ineffectual," Richard says.
Mahmood could be in trouble here, he's being called across by the ref, but looking at the replay it's nothing much just a bit of flailing arms and some ineffectual pushing.
And I don't begrudge them that, not a bit, because in these hard economic times, immensely profitable ineffectual products such as theirs can use all the help they don't need.
If one gets impatient when Paul Ryan, say, goes on a bit too long with one of those graphs showing that we are doomed unless we smash Medicaid into little ineffectual pieces, it's likely not because of his too blindingly quick mind but rather his dodgy math and his pleased callousness.
A bit.
(Its irreverent depiction of sex, substance abuse and violence, however, are a bit of a departure for "Masterpiece Theater".) The story, which spans the mid-1970's to the early 1990's, follows the friendship of two seemingly ill-matched World War II buddies: Archie Jones, white, ineffectual and dim, and Samad Iqbal, a proud, angrily defeated immigrant from Bangladesh.
"A bits a bit.
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