inexpediency
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inexpediencies
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There was also negro slavery in the northern colonies, though it was never entirely accepted as an institution,--not from any moral scruples, but because of inexpediency and poverty.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
The ascetic philosophy produces contradiction and confusion in the acts of men, because some of them work for expediency and others for inexpediency at the same time.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
It was a considerable time before she could be brought to sanction a step of which her sagest counsellors, secretly hostile to Leicester, labored to demonstrate the entire inexpediency.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
All the neutrals, and many of the wavering people, and some of the most timid of our friends, were against us, on the ground of the inexpediency of agitating this question.
From Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
Pœtus had advocated the propriety of calling a spade a spade, and Cicero shows him the inexpediency.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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