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
Before the War, the late devious Novelist Henry James, encountering Authoress Harris, went so far as not to deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Distances have narrowed since 1895, when U. S. Secretary of State Richard Olney declared that 3,000 miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and inexpedient."
From Time Magazine Archive
Contesting with Ford in the U. S. the German decided was inexpedient.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But a man may have matters to take up his attention, and his movements also, that he may deem it inexpedient to talk of to his wife."
From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
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