toothless

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The EO is completely pointless and toothless for any purpose BUT gaining an upper hand on legitimate security researchers.

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Quick take

Having no teeth.

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adjective

Having no teeth.

adjective

(figuratively) Weak; having no ability to enforce something.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for toothless.

adjective

Having no teeth.

adjective

(figuratively) Weak; having no ability to enforce something.

Example sentences

The EO is completely pointless and toothless for any purpose BUT gaining an upper hand on legitimate security researchers.

But with the rise of satellite tv it seems that the regulators have become either toothless or uninterested.

Isn't there some other magic sauce required like supernormal margins or superfew employees or exploiting toothless regulations?

At $2/call, it's not worth anyone's time to take a bad player to court, and the law becomes toothless.

But as it is, they are toothless, and it's an US world they have to live in.

But given the lack of any entity to enforce the UN's resolutions or findings or declarations, it's a toothless entity.

Regulation is also a good thing, as it allows the citizenry to enact constraints on companies where consumer action would be toothless.

The current system seems almost designed to create toothless regulators and a revolving door.

We moved from NSA should not spy on everyone to NSA should be toothless...

The debate on DNT is completely sterile as this thing is absolutely toothless.

I do understand that most of these bodies are toothless but we do have a CCI.

And the UN has already proven itself toothless many times over.

Quote examples

Most HOAs are kinda toothless on the enforcement side, as any financial penalties could be met with property owner's "document it and prove it" response, at which point there's little recourse.

Exciting but toothless "features" like this are exactly what we need to encourage more people to invest time porting their projects to languages with proper concurrency primitives like Go, Rust or Scala...

The idea that Sweden is somehow prevented from doing something inside her own borders because of some toothless international "law" (what is the punishment for failing to abide by the agreement?) is laughable at best and incredibly disingenuous at worst.

"Accept that things which become mainstream have to acquire aspects of the mainstream." I guess my take away was that when weirdness becomes mainstream it becomes nothing more than a toothless affectation.