inexpedient

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Inexpedient, indeed, the dismissal of the preceding ministry is generally considered to have been, even in the interest of the Conservatives themselves.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke

"What I meant was, that though I regard the proposition as inexpedient—" "Inexpedient!"

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

"Inexpedient under present conditions," was the way they put it.

From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster

Inexpedient, in-eks-pē′di-ent, adj. not tending to promote any end: unfit: inconvenient.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various