impotent
adjective
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A police department may be impotent to stop the flow of drugs into a neighborhood. A group of countries may be impotent to force another country to change its human-rights policies. The impotence of a prime minister may be shown by her inability to get an important piece of legislation passed. Impotent and impotence may also have a special meaning, when they refer to a man's inability to have sexual intercourse.
Examples of impotent in a Sentence
Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 28 June 2024
Colleagues become impotent, making decisions that appease the boss at the expense of the organization.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
There is no resolution of season-long plotlines, just new ones injected at the last minute as a tear-jerking cap on an otherwise impotent series.
—Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 12 June 2024
With our impotent Congress full of professional grifters, the executive branch has way too much power in addition to all the professional bureaucrats in D.C. making policy, not laws.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
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“Impotent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impotent. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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