Inexpediency: alternatives and connections

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness,…

Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.

The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; a…

Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness.

Unsuitableness; incongruity.

Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or me…

A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…

To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to…

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly pro…

The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.

Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.

Impropriety.