impracticability

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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

The Sunday Times’ report also includes information about how Qatar allegedly and surreptitiously paid an American professor who published a paper about the economic impracticability of hosting a World Cup.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2018

That starts with cashmere itself, a fabric whose extravagant associations originate partly in its fundamental impracticability.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2015

People keep silkworms to spin that beautiful fabric for them; and M. Agassiz has shown there is no impracticability.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various