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

But he added diplomatically that it would be "inexpedient" for them ever to meet again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contesting with Ford in the U. S. the German decided was inexpedient.

From Time Magazine Archive

The second seemed inexpedient on grounds of prudence and decency.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose