Toothless
toothless (adjective) - ineffective
a toothless law
a toothless legislature
completely toothless
relatively toothless
somewhat toothless
powerless and toothless
toothless and passive
flawed and toothless laws
a toothless commission
a toothless tiger
toothless liberalism
largely toothless
Example sentences:
* "Like most laws that are well-intentioned but toothless, the law was useless in a real crisis."
* "Sugden warned that independent bodies would become toothless if they were constantly overruled by the government."
* "These laws are flawed and toothless."
* "The UK Wildlife and Countryside Act has been described as flawed and toothless by the House of Lords, on the grounds that its provisions to prevent damage to valuable sites only apply to owners or occupiers, not outsiders."
* "Lord McGregor also attacked the view that a commission without legal sanctions was toothless."
* "They are strongly opposed to the government-proposed National Heritage Areas which Wright argues would be completely toothless.
* "The largely toothless legislature has vowed not to authorise spending for new projects."
* "I'll geev you three camels for your wife,' said the toothless street vendor with a lecherous look on his face."
* Here was the scandal seen through the eyes of an old man, its central figure, but now powerless, toothless and thoughtless; easily tired, and probably over-cautioned on the dangers of speaking in courtrooms.
* Until the 1960s historians generally accepted that the trade unions were on the retreat, relatively toothless and passive, throughout the rest of the inter-war years which followed their defeat in the General Strike.
* "But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture, that it either becomes a sort of toothless liberalism or ignores politics completely."
* "One might use the power of guardianship, often regarded as toothless as it has no power to enforce medication."
* "I'd call the team a toothless tiger, wouldn't you?" she said.
* "Would he eventually be ousted, a toothless lion left to die of starvation while the rest of the herd ran off after game he could no longer compete for?"
* "Throughout history elderly people were commonly toothless since false teeth were a luxury until the nineteenth-century."
* "Middle-class visitors entering a work-house for the first time could be deeply shaken by the harsh indignity of the prison-like routine, the grotesque, despairing toothless faces, the forlorn, half-dazed aspect of these battered human hulks who once were young."
