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inexpediency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being inexpedient 2 (context countable English) An inexpedient action or statement
WordNet
n. the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: inexpedience] [ant: expedience, expedience]
Usage examples of "inexpediency".
And hence all social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have.