inexpedientadj.
/ɪnɛkˈspiːdɪənt/ Not expedient; not advantageous, useful, or suitable in the circumstances; unprofitable, unadvisable, impolitic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > disadvantageousness > [adjective]
discommodious1540
disprofitable1548
disadvantageous1550
disadvantageable1587
inexpedient1608
disvantageous1622
unbeneficial1626
inconvenient1651
unserviceable1698
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [adjective]
unexpedientc1449
discommendable?1537
unpolitic1548
politicless1556
disagreeing1568
impolitica1600
inexpedient1608
unpractical1638
unpolitical1643
unpractic1657
uncounsellablea1674
uneligible1690
unprosperable1690
impolitical1748
unadvisable1758
ineligible1779
inadvisable1782
1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 117 If hee grant euill things inexpedient, or crimes errours, he hath yeelded much.
a1714 Bp G. Burnet Hist. Reformation anno 1550 (R.) Hooper maintaining, that if it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies.
a1808 R. Hurd Serm. in Wks. VII. xlviii. (R.) They are indeed inexpedient, that is, unprofitable, unadvisable, improper in a great variety of respects.
1817 J. Bentham Def. Econ. against Mr. Burke 39 Nothing could be more correctly lawful: but..few things would be more manifestly inexpedient.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 143 There are some things which may be inexpedient, and yet I call them good.
Derivatives
inexˈpediently adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [adverb]
unpoliticly1586
impoliticly1608
inadvisedly1648
unpolitically1673
unadvisably1702
impolitically1768
impracticably1781
unpractically1828
inexpediently1856
1856 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
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adj.1608