Inexpedience

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inexpedience
       n : the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: {inexpediency}]
           [ant: {expedience}, {expedience}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexpedience":
     bad policy, badness, callowness, childishness, damnability,
     evilness, immaturity, impolicy, improperness, impropriety,
     imprudence, inaccuracy, inadvisability, inappropriateness,
     inattention, inauspiciousness, inconsideration, inconvenience,
     indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexpediency, infelicity,
     inferiority, injudiciousness, inopportuneness, inopportunity,
     intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, invalidity, irrationality,
     irrelevance, lateness, maladministration, malevolence, malfeasance,
     malpractice, misadministration, misconduct, misdirection,
     misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling,
     mismanagement, misrule, moral badness, neglect, negligence,
     nonfeasance, omission, peccancy, pompousness, prematurity,
     puerility, reasonlessness, recklessness, reprehensibility,
     senselessness, stuffiness, thoughtlessness, unfavorableness,
     unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unhealthiness,
     unintelligence, unkindness, unpleasantness, unpropitiousness,
     unreason, unreasonableness, unripeness, unseasonableness,
     unsensibleness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, unsuitability,
     unthoughtfulness, untimeliness, unwisdom, unwiseness, viciousness,
     wickedness, witlessness, wrongdoing, wrongness