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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]:

inexpediency

noun

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

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