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n. - The quality of not being usable.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : an impracticable plan
  • There may be some who, in a disparaging tone, will at this stage of my confessions enter an accusation of impracticableness.
  • No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs.
  • I was even mad enough to think of venturing up the cavern again, but was restrained from the attempt by the certain impracticableness of it Then
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