inexpediencyn.
/ɪnɛkˈspiːdɪənsi/ The quality of being inexpedient; disadvantageousness, unadvisableness, impolicy.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > disadvantageousness > [noun]
discommoditya1535
inconveniency1552
discommodiousness1579
discommodious1583
inexpedience1608
inexpediency1641
disadvantageousness1650
inconvenience1653
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [noun]
unexpediency1607
inexpedience1608
inexpediency1641
unpoliticness1654
impoliticness1680
impoliticalness1695
impolicy1747
inadvisedness1774
unpracticalness1828
unadvisableness1833
inadvisability1839
unpracticality1840
undesirability1870
1641 (title) Certaine reasons to prove the unlawfulnesse and inexpediencie of all diocesan episcopacy.
a1663 R. Sanderson Judgement one View Settlement Church in Wks. (1854) I. 320 It concerneth superiours to look well to the expediency and inexpediency of what they enjoin in indifferent things.
1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1827) vi. v. 110/1 It is not the rigour, but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority, which makes them tyrannical.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. xiii. 377 The inexpediency of attempting to raise any considerable revenue by means of income-taxes.
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