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
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She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But he added diplomatically that it would be "inexpedient" for them ever to meet again.
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Chancel screens, with or without gates, are lawful, but chancellors of dioceses have refused to grant a faculty to erect gates, as unnecessary or inexpedient.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.