Thesaurus / impracticable
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So part of the reason ice cream was so coveted is that, like vanilla, it was scarce and impracticable.
HOW ICE CREAM BECAME THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN COMFORT FOODMATT SIEGELAUGUST 27, 2021EATERI looked over the terrace; it was far too high to leap from; escape, if there was danger, was impracticable.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLORIt has usually been considered impracticable to combine any powers of compulsion with a Poor Law system.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBThen he conclusively proves the first impracticable and the second inexpedient.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERHe was crotchetty and impracticable, a man of rash judgment and hasty action-as brave and as tenacious as a bulldog.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANSuffice it to say, the bordeaux was very respectable; but the beefsteak impracticable, and the poulette questionable.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUSMetaphysical subtlety, in pursuit of an impracticable theory, could alone have devised one that is calculated to destroy it.
KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTYVARIOUSFox described the war as unjust and impracticable, and said that the bill exhibited the folly of the ministers.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTThe ground on either side was quite impracticable, and the detachment must necessarily pass through the wood.
MICHAEL STROGOFFJULES VERNEWhy should not a doctrine seem impracticable, when we have suppressed its fundamental proposition?
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOYWORDS RELATED TO IMPRACTICABLE
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