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

Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly in the programs."

From Time Magazine Archive

For, while Author Roosevelt told his exciting story well and smoothly, he left the solution of the plot to Congress�and every one of the three possible solutions is politically 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

If the attack occurs in mid-winter and the seashore be inaccessible or inexpedient, the child should be restricted to a well-ventilated nursery or suite of rooms, the temperature of which should be kept uniform.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various