What is "inexpedience"

Inexpedience \In`ex*pe"di*ence\, Inexpediency \In`ex*pe"di*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack 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.

alt. The quality or state of being inexpedient; unsuitableness or impropriety. n. The quality or state of being inexpedient; unsuitableness or impropriety.

n. the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: inexpediency] [ant: expedience, expedience]