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Definition of Inexpedient
1. Adjective. Not suitable or advisable. "An inexpedient tactic"
Similar to: Inadvisable
Antonyms: Expedient
Derivative terms: Inexpedience, Inexpediency
2. Adjective. Not appropriate to the purpose.
Definition of Inexpedient
1. a. 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.
Definition of Inexpedient
1. Adjective. 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. ¹
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Definition of Inexpedient
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexpedient
Literary usage of Inexpedient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Underlying Principles of Modern Legislation by William Jethro Brown (1920)
"The compulsion of the individual by an external authority is unnecessary,
inexpedient, and morally wrong, (1) It is unnecessary, because experience shows ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"... when the vessels were small and the wound so situated that it was difficult
or inexpedient to ligate the artery ; applying the dry sponge firmly to the ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... is inexpedient and unnecessary, and \vo are opposed to it in any form, and
the more so since a majority of the- slave States have refused to go out, ..."
4. History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"... and resolutions were adopted declaring it to be inexpedient to call a state
convention to nominate a party candidate for school superintendent James J. ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1848)
"... on the case of M. de Lafayette in this letter would be still more delicate,
and, under present circumstances, as unavailing as it would be inexpedient. ..."
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