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inefficient

/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/ adjective B2
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious. · Celery is an inefficient food.
  2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing. · inefficient workers· an inefficient administrator
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There I was stretched, when you, my dear Watson, and all your following were investigating in the most sympathetic and inefficient manner the circumstances of my death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 12 · C1

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