inexpedient

I will say this for the members of my family that they know when argument is inexpedient.

"It would be most inexpedient for you to lose consciousness in the street."

Yes, indeed, he said: and there are some things which may be inexpedient, and yet I call them good.

It might be politically inexpedient to accept bodies while rejecting living people.

That it is inexpedient to grant the prayer of petitioners.

It would be politically inexpedient to do anything else."

The bill was subsequently voted inexpedient to legislate in committee and by the house.

But he thought it inexpedient to advertise this.

"Excellence, you have, but some things are inexpedient."

Due to the inexpedient incorporation of the department, the folklore collection there played only a marginal role.

Comoros accepted international aid for family planning in 1983, but it was considered politically inexpedient to put any plans into effect.

He declared passing any law reorganizing and arming the state militia to be inexpedient.

Wouldn't reveal it would have been the truth, but it would be inexpedient to say so.

The practice was coming to be seen as politically inexpedient and of diminishing value in maintaining Britain's naval supremacy.

She even went so far as to murmur that they were non-essentials and that my trip after them might be inexpedient.

He added that: "If George considers something right, he will take a position, no matter how inexpedient.

"For this reason it is inexpedient for earthlings to fix their eyes on those who dwell in very high places."

Actually, a teammate had been Jewish, but Ernst deemed it inexpedient to advertise that here.

They are vital for remote regions, where power lines or organic fuel supplies are inexpedient.

This goal informed Hitler's movement very early on, but he saw it as inexpedient to express this extreme position publicly.

She always found out later - the servants watched his goings and coming - but evidently she thought it inexpedient to do anything drastic.

Environmental restoration is often neglected, either being overlooked or being deemed inexpedient or of a low priority.

The certain knowledge that one is only cannon fodder to be sacrificed when it is politically inexpedient for regular French troops to die.

It could be due to a continuing relationship - marriage in the line of duty, for example - in which a substitution would be inexpedient.

Therefore, for the Russians to continue with the war in hopes of destroying the Ottoman Empire would have been inexpedient.