Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience

647. Inexpedience.

   NOUN:INEXPEDIENCE or inexpediency, undesirability, undesirableness &c. adj.; discommodity, impropriety; unfitness (disagreement) [See Disagreement]; inutility [See Inutility]; disadvantage, disadvantageousness, inconvenience, inadvisability.
   VERB:BE INEXPEDIENT &c. adj.; come amiss (disagree) [See Disagreement]; embarrass (hinder) [See Hindrance]; put to inconvenience.
   ADJECTIVE:INEXPEDIENT, undesirable; unadvisable [rare], inadvisable, unsuitable, troublesome, objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit (inconsonant) [See Disagreement].
  ILL-CONTRIVED, ill-advised; unsatisfactory; unprofitable &c., inept (useless) [See Inutility]; inopportune (unseasonable) [See Intempestivity]; out of -, in the wrong- place; improper, unseemly.
  CLUMSY, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky; unmanageable (impracticable) [See Difficulty]; impedient (in the way) [See Hindrance].
  UNNECESSARY (redundant) [See Redundance].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. It will never do.
2. It doesn’t pay.
3. The game is not worth the candle.
4. He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.—Franklin