Inutile

wormwood, and the like, […]dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh

The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation.

Senator Hontiveros does not strike me as a naive politician. I am certain she knows that lifestyle checks are inutile. Yet, she responded favorably to this drollery, with the proviso that the President includes himself in the farcical charade, which (in sham fashion) Marcos has obliged.

Is President Duterte so inutile that his Cabinet members and other appointees do not consult him on very important matters? Harry Roque said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not consult the President regarding the termination of the UP-DND Accord.