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

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

The mill bill was dropped as inexpedient and last week Missouri's new sales tax law went into effect.

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

One was, that the loan could not be had—the other, that the war was inexpedient.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler