0 having no teeth:
1 used to describe an organization or a rule that has no power:
This well-intentioned but toothless law will do nothing to improve the situation.
The charge that this model of miracle renders the laws of nature 'metaphysically toothless ' seems ill-founded.
Is he further aware that if we continue at the present rate of decline, we shall shortly be producing a nation of toothless adolescents?
In reality, the assembly will be a toothless organisation—excuse the pun, given my other profession.
I welcome the control over demolition, but it is a fairly toothless proposal which will present many planning authorities with problems, not solutions.
The accusation that the directors general are toothless is misplaced.
He and his supporters think that a voluntary agreement—what he might call a legally toothless agreement —is not enough.
If the new authorities have anything to do with it, the new consumer associations will be toothless wonders.
The prohibition, as we understand it, would be toothless.
