inexpediency
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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 Aikin, Lucy
Professor Dodd said something to me about the inexpediency of so young a person appearing in print.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
A.—I suppose they will think that it was repealed from a conviction of its inexpediency; and they will rely upon it that, while the same expediency subsists, you will never attempt to make such another.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton
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 Trollope, Anthony
Theodore was to board with his grandparents, and to begin school with the New Year; at the same time, and—alas! for the inexpediency of uncle Rutherford's arrangements—in the same school, with Jim.
From Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls by Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)
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