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

Contesting with Ford in the U. S. the German decided was inexpedient.

From Time Magazine Archive

Distances have narrowed since 1895, when U. S. Secretary of State Richard Olney declared that 3,000 miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and 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

On the other hand, it is obviously inexpedient to wait for the return of the salmon, since, in that case, we may not reach the Missouri before the ice will prevent our navigating it.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas