inexpedience

Roget category 647

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#647. Inexpedience

noun

inexpedience, inexpediency — undesirableness, undesirability etc. adj. — discommodity^†, impropriety — unfitness etc. (disagreement) 24 — inutility etc. 645 — disadvantage.

verb

be inexpedient etc. adj. — come amiss etc. (disagree) 24 — embarrass etc. (hinder) 706 — put to inconvenience — pay too dear for one's whistle.

adjective

inexpedient, undesirable — unadvisable, inadvisable — objectionable — inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient — incommodious, discommodious^† — disadvantageous — inappropriate, unfit etc. (inconsonant) 24.
ill-contrived, ill-advised — unsatisfactory — unprofitable &c. — unsubservient etc. (useless) 645 — inopportune etc. (unseasonable) 135 — out of place, in the wrong place — improper, unseemly.
clumsy, awkward — cumbrous, cumbersome — lumbering, unwieldy, hulky^† — unmanageable etc. (impracticable) 704 — impedient etc. (in the way) 706^†.
unnecessary etc. (redundant) 641.

phrase

it will never do.

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