impracticability
Example Sentences
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Number theory—the study of patterns in numbers—had long had an aura of abstract impracticability: math for math’s sake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
She glossed over the impracticability of the proposal: It won’t solve highway traffic congestion.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
“But here, think about the impracticability of this – there is no one to serve,” said Lallas, calling the complaint a “fishing expedition.”
From Fox News ● Jul. 29, 2020
That starts with cashmere itself, a fabric whose extravagant associations originate partly in its fundamental impracticability.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2015
For in point of fact what one may call an organic impracticability lay at the core of the moral scheme of Richardson and Fielding.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
