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

Last week he sat on a commission the majority of which believed it "inexpedient" to change the Church's name.

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

It would of course be technically inexpedient for a hypnotist to make such a speech; it would tear the subject away from his unconscious attitude and stimulate him to conscious opposition.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund