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inexpediency|ɪnɛkˈspiːdɪənsɪ|
[f. in-3 + expediency; or f. inexpedient: see -ency.]
The quality of being inexpedient; disadvantageousness, unadvisableness, impolicy.
1641(title) Certaine Reasons to prove the Unlawfulnesse and Inexpediencie of all Diocesan Episcopacy. a1663Sanderson (J.), It concerneth superiours to look well to the expediency and inexpediency of what they enjoin in indifferent things. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. vi. v. (1827) 110/1 It is not the rigour, but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority, which makes them tyrannical. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. xii. (1852) 390 The inexpediency of attempting to raise any considerable revenue by means of income-taxes. |