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- noun Plural form of
impracticable .
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Examples
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Mad. de Grignan, "que vous avez raison d'etre fatiguée de cette Montagne de Rochepot! je la hais comme la mort; que de cahots, et quelle cruauté qu'au mois de Janvier les chemins de Bourgogne soient impracticables!"
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Nor is Mr. Roosevelt happy in his illustration, when, in his concluding arraignment of the Abolitionists, he seeks to discredit them as an organization of impracticables by comparing them to the political Prohibitionists of to-day.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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When one of these professional impracticables denounces the attitude of decent men as "a hodge-podge of the ideal and the practicable," he is amusingly unaware that he is writing his own condemnation, showing his own inability to do good work or to appreciate good work.
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With us these little knots of impracticables have an insignificant effect upon the national life, and no representation to speak of in our governmental assemblies.
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On the following day he frankly laughed at them as a lot of impracticables who either did not know the patent facts of city life or refused to admit those facts.
The Great God Success David Graham Phillips 1889
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The incapables and the impracticables, though loaded with diplomas and degrees, are left behind.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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He was a lover of peace, in active sympathy with social reforms, sometimes betrayed into extravagances, but generally guarded by his common sense against extremists and impracticables.
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878
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Let us not be impracticable, for secession was engendered among the impracticables of New England during the time of the embargo, and then adopted by those of South Carolina; and the putting of it down is likely to cost us banks of money and scores of lives.
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The public don't care for a few soreheads and impracticables in an operation that is going to open up the whole
Little Journey in the World Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The public don't care for a few soreheads and impracticables in an operation that is going to open up the whole
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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