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
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
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
She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient.
From Time Magazine Archive
Granted for a single moment that it had been inexpedient to leave Trevlyn Hold to an infant, it was not to you it should have been left.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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