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I thought her defence might be that she was using the word much as American comedian Louis CK employs it, as a general insult for a weak person or ineffectual behaviour.
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A female inheriting a more 'masculine' pattern of activity may suffer reduced fitness by losing out in competition for fecundity-limiting resources or through expensive and ineffectual behaviours.
It visibly illustrates anger at ineffectual government, social injustice and unacceptable behaviour of those in power.
Bentham held, with Hobbes, that unless the language of the law and the methods used to interpret it were accessible and useful to the ordinary citizens to whom it applied, law would remain ineffectual as a guide to their behaviour.
That's why I hugely prefer the term "criminal behaviour orders", even if it comes to refer to the same ineffectual fudge (now Kraft fudge, I think).
A bit ineffectual.
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
Traffic police are ineffectual.
It has proved ineffectual.
Saints can be ineffectual.
Both fathers are ineffectual.
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