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adj. - Not suitable or advisable adj. - Not appropriate to the purpose.

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  • It must consider whether there are special circumstances which render it inexpedient to enforce the judgment.
  • An inexpedient tactic
  • Many who were not in sympathy with the men or the methods assailed thought that its course was "inexpedient,"
  • Hill of Georgia, all senators of the United States, are the committee that report it "inexpedient" to secure equal rights to the women of the United States.
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