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

Last week he sat on a commission the majority of which believed it "inexpedient" to change the Church's name.

From Time Magazine Archive

For, while Author Roosevelt told his exciting story well and smoothly, he left the solution of the plot to Congress�and every one of the three possible solutions is politically inexpedient.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient.

From Time Magazine Archive

So it is inexpedient to call that false or count that silly, which it is expedient should be presumed true.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)