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inexpedient, a.|ɪnɛkˈspiːdɪənt|
[f. in-3 + expedient.]
Not expedient; not advantageous, useful, or suitable in the circumstances; unprofitable, unadvisable, impolitic.
1608Bp. Hall Char. Virtues & V., Flatterer 117 If hee grant evill things inexpedient, or crimes errors, he hath yeelded much. a1714Burnet Hist. Ref. an. 1550 (R.), Hooper maintaining, that if it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. a1808Hurd Serm. Wks. VII. xlviii. (R.), They are indeed inexpedient, that is, unprofitable, unadvisable, improper in a great variety of respects. a1832Bentham Offic. Aptit. Wks. 1843 V. 297 Nothing could be more correctly lawful: but..few things would be more manifestly inexpedient. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 148 There are some things which may be inexpedient, and yet I call them good.
Hence inexˈpediently adv.
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