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

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

The suggestion I am about to make," wrote Mr. Boyd, "may at first glance seem inexpedient, but I believe it has real merit and I urge you to give it very serious consideration.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be inexpedient to go into details about railway lines and other modern industrial enterprises by means of which Sun sought to modernize China.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony