'Inexpediency' definitions:
Definition of 'inexpediency'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: inexpedience, inexpediency] [ant: expedience, expediency]
Definition of 'Inexpediency'
From: GCIDE
- Inexpedience \In`ex*pe"di*ence\, Inexpediency \In`ex*pe"di*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. [1913 Webster]
- It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley. [1913 Webster]