impracticable
adjective
not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means.
impracticableness
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a word derived from
impracticable.
Example Sentences
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Every day or two he had some new expedient for getting the schooner off in the spring; though all who heard them were perfectly convinced of their impracticableness.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper
St. Leger and Rupert laughed at Dolly, and with her; and Mrs. Copley, in spite of chewing the cud of mortification at Dolly's impracticableness, was beguiled into forgetting herself.
From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner
No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
There may be some who, in a disparaging tone, will at this stage of my confessions enter an accusation of impracticableness.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Conflict has never arisen on the ethical sayings of Jesus, which, making allowance for the impracticableness of a few, place him high among the sages of antiquity.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
