Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inexpedient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inexpedient.

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  • adjective Obsolete form of inexpedient.

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Examples

  • And, one might guess, this number would be topped up a bit by those who, with the same goals, would consider it unexpedient at the moment to express extreme opinion.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The like also would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish Nature in her first concoction, 57 and send their minds back to study in good tune and satisfaction.

    Of Education 1909

  • Therefore he had done wrong if he had not circumcised Timothy, since the circumcising of him was according to the rules of the word, and it was expedient to circumcise him, and unexpedient to do otherwise.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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