inexpedient
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Just as it was wrong and inexpedient for medieval France to demonise the Protestants, so too it would be wrong for today's politicians to demonise Islam or its followers.
From Economist ● May 9, 2017
The mill bill was dropped as inexpedient and last week Missouri's new sales tax law went into effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Contesting with Ford in the U. S. the German decided was inexpedient.
From Time Magazine Archive
Distances have narrowed since 1895, when U. S. Secretary of State Richard Olney declared that 3,000 miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and inexpedient."
From Time Magazine Archive
The existing ordinance of the city rendered it impossible to comply with this suggestion; and indeed it seemed to be, on other grounds, inexpedient.
From The Will of Samuel Appleton with remarks by one of the executors by Samuel Appleton
