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inexpediency |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inexpedience \In`ex*pe"di*ence\, Inexpediency \In`ex*pe"di*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inexpediency n : the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: {inexpedience}] [ant: {expedience}, {expedience}]
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