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n. - The quality of being unsuited to the end in view.

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  • Regarding their inexpedience and ugliness, such a word as the
  • Their reasons to not impeach, ( "distraction, political inexpedience" etc.), are not legitimate reasons to NOT impeach.
  • Regan helped himself with the quip, "I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexpedience."
  • The 'King of the Mountains' was convinced by the scene that had just taken place of the inexpedience of retaining the prisoners alive.
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