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inexpediency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun inexpediency has 1 sense
- inexpediency(n = noun.attribute) inexpedience - the quality of being unsuited to the end in view; Array is a kind of disadvantage
Antonym: expediency
Derived forms adjective inexpedient1, adjective inexpedient2
CIDE DICTIONARY
inexpediency, n.
The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. [1913 Webster]
"It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical."
[1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
inexpediency
Inexpedience
N inexpedience, inexpediency, undesirableness, undesirability, discommodity, impropriety, unfitness, inutility, disadvantage, inexpedient, undesirable, unadvisable, inadvisable, objectionable, inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient, incommodious, discommodious, disadvantageous, inappropriate, unfit, ill-contrived, ill-advised, unsatisfactory, unprofitable, unsubservient, inopportune, out of place, in the wrong place, improper, unseemly, clumsy, awkward, cumbrous, cumbersome, lumbering, unwieldy, hulky, unmanageable, impedient, unnecessary, it will never do.
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