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Definition of Inexpediently
1. Adverb. In an inexpedient manner.
Definition of Inexpediently
1. adv. Not expediently; unfitly.
Definition of Inexpediently
1. Adverb. In a way that is not expedient. ¹
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Definition of Inexpediently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexpediently
Literary usage of Inexpediently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"... it appears that the court below but substituted a regulation which it deemed
wise for one which it considered the Commission had inexpediently adopted, ..."
2. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"... colour, etc., the number of those who are held unjustly or inexpediently in
the bonds of a perpetual slavery is already quite large in the South, ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1833)
"... of all public regulation of the higher instruction, is wholly drawn from
particular instances of this regulation having been inexpediently applied. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"in cases of discretionary power abused, or unwisely, or inexpediently exercised,
where the mischief is of sufficient magnitude to call for such high ..."
5. A Journey in the Back Country by Frederick Law Olmsted (1860)
"... color, etc., the number of those who are held unjustly or inexpediently in
the bonds of a perpetual slavery is already quite large in the South, ..."
6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1827)
"It was complained, that _„ were no facts to lead to the oo^- clusion, that corn
would, during the recess, reach a price inexpediently high. ..."
7. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"Though ministers might at first have acted inexpediently in erasing her name they
were justified by what had occurred in not re-inserting it. ..."
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