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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inexpedience \In'ex*pe"di*ence\, Inexpediency \In'ex*pe"di*en*cy\, noun The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures.
It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inexpedience
noun: 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
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