inexpedient

Speech parts

1. inexpedient - Adjective

2. inexpedient - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another.

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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation. Aldo Leopold

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. Ambrose Bierce

Government is at best but an expedient but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. Henry David Thoreau

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