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
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
Before the War, the late devious Novelist Henry James, encountering Authoress Harris, went so far as not to deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he added diplomatically that it would be "inexpedient" for them ever to meet again.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this morning all felt cold and tired, and would have given much for a warm breakfast; but it was thought altogether inexpedient to light a fire as yet.
From Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa by Lawrence Fletcher
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