Example Sentences

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No one is drowned in a bathtub, but there is a joking reference to the inadvisability of having a tub in the house.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Starr’s defenders could argue that the experience of one impeachment led him to believe in the inadvisability of the next.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2022

All GPs in Wales are to be reminded about taking properly recorded suicide risk assessments and the "inadvisability" of prescribing benzodiazepine in the long term.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2015

You have registered your opinion about the inadvisability of this union.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2014

This was done in the most complete detail and with great care and ingenuity, but at the end there was no difference of opinion whatever as to the inadvisability of proceeding with the operations.

From The Crisis of the Naval War by Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl