Inexpedient

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  • adjective. Not expedient; inadvisable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not expedient; not suited to the purpose or the circumstances; not judicious or advisable.
  • Synonyms Unadvisable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not appropriate to the purpose
  • adjective. not suitable or advisable
  • Word Usage
    "If it was "inexpedient" to stress the slogan of a Native Republic in 1935 it was probably just as inexpedient to do so in 1931, and Bunting was probably right."
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