unpracticable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of unpracticable
First recorded in 1640–50; un- 1 + practicable
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It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps—how are you going to live?"
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
Areus, by frequent ambushes, and seizing positions where the ways were most unpracticable, harassed the Gauls and Molossians that brought up the rear.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
To excuse himself from not aiding this reform Mr. Savage cries, visionary, unpracticable!
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
I shall never admit that the plan of my campaign was unpracticable or ill contrived.
From The Bride of Dreams by Mellie von Auw
For farther, what city would ever submit to the rigorous laws of Plato, to the severe injunctions of Aristotle? or the more unpracticable tenets of Socrates?
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus
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