(a.) Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its use in treatment of chlamydiosis proved inexpedient while ciprofloxacin was effective in the treatment of the infection.
(2) An opinion is sometimes requested on the future health of a child who is up for adoption when parental incest is a realistic possibility and it is impossible or inexpedient to acquire blood from both parents.
(3) Substitution adrenomimetic therapy for arresting collaptoid reactions is inexpedient.
(4) "Given the deadline imposed by the constitutional court it is inexpedient to await the passage through parliament of an act dealing with the situation," the 89-year-old said in a government notice.
(5) During a 20-year period 31 patients were treated at the clinic, 21 of them underwent operation, in 5 patients an operation was considered inexpedient, another 5 patients refused to be operated on.
(6) The lesions were apparently caused by an inexpedient pull on the catheter causing ischaemic necrosis of the urethral wall.
(7) Analysis of the data obtained indicated that any examination for shigellae during the extraepidemic period was inexpedient.
(8) Clinical data (110 observations over 106 cases) and experiments on animals proved the inexpediency of the peritonization of non-pertonized surfaces in children both in "pure" peritoneum and under the condition of a pronounced inflammation.
(9) Thus, the absence of prophylactic efficacy and the sensitizing action of antiinfluenza lactoglobulin pointed to the inexpediency of its use for prophylactic and therapeutic purpose.
(10) Results of the work carried out indicated the inexpediency of the treatment of this disease with a combination of levomycetin and phthalazol.
(11) The use of antitetanus serum (ATS) in the north taiga soil-vegetative zone and farther to the north is inexpedient because of an insignificant contamination of soil with B. tetani and a trivial contact of the population with soil.
(12) Lymphosorption is thought to be inexpedient in malignant tumors of the liver with the symptoms of cancer intoxication.
(13) It is substantiated as inexpedient to professionally train and to employ in operator positions the persons with predisposition to create accident as well as necessary to allow for individual-psychophysiological peculiarities of operators while investigating the causes of accidents.
(14) The combination of phenobarbital and pyrogenal has proved to be inexpedient.
(15) The authors found it inexpedient to make planned mass screening of children attending or just entering the preschool institutions.
(16) Under such conditions, it is inexpedient to select immune response modulators.
(17) On the basis of the present results and various other factors (ambiguity of the sources of the acoustic effects, expense of the procedure), application of acoustic analysis in forensic medicine for recognition of low-level alcohol intoxication is considered inexpedient.
(18) No causal relations may be inferred from the correlation between the level of trapezius activity and complaints, though it indicates that individual, inexpedient muscle activity patterns may constitute an important risk factor for development of musculo-skeletal complaints.
(19) Visualized cyclodialysis was carried out in 16 consecutive cases of operation-demanding glaucoma, where trabeculectomy was considered inexpedient.
(20) The purpose of this investigation was to establish how often the hormonal pattern indicated ovulation in uremic women and, thereby, the possibility of an inexpedient pregnancy.
Unwise
Definition:
(a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(2) It was considered unwise to treat amenorrhea with combined estrogens and progestagens because metrorrhagia ensued.
(3) Some of the ones they've sent to the European parliament, one of them got sent to prison , others had to send back a lot of money because they all believed what they were saying about the Brussels gravy train and rather unwisely tried to take advantage of it.
(4) Mentioning those values may have been deemed unwise, given the hyper-secularised culture of the new Länder .
(5) There is serious concern that some physicians may be unwisely abandoning well tested treatment methods because of the premature dissemination of early results of some trials.
(6) For the purpose of developmental evaluation of growing children and the nutritional assessment of individuals or populations, reliance on current North American standards for size, maturational timing, body fatness or osseous development may be unwise not only with respect to various African, Asiatic and Pacific populations but often with respect to adults and children in North America.
(7) The ACF’s chief executive, Kelly O’Shanassy, said: “The last federal budget was widely seen as unfair and unwise, cutting funding for science and environment.
(8) Since approximately half of the persons with contact allergy to neomycin will also react to gentamicin, it seems unwise to treat such patients with other intravenous aminoglycosides that are closely related chemically.
(9) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(10) However, because of the biases associated with screening it would be unwise to advocate a nationwide programme until the results of the controlled trials now in progress are available.
(11) We believe it is unwise to discharge asthmatics from hospital until the diurnal variation in their peak flow is below 20%.
(12) David Davis, the leading Conservative rightwing MP, said it was unwise to build a policy on a single case, but claimed that as many as one or two in 100 parents were having an extra child due to the prospect of child benefit.
(13) We live in an age of confident political predictions that are repeatedly proven to be unwise, but this was an outcome that was never in serious doubt.
(14) However, it appears unwise to categorically refute the repetition of congenital toxoplasmosis in siblings.
(15) This may never happen, but it would be unwise to bet that way.
(16) He did a good job of helping Manchester City and Sheffield United out of the doldrums, but perhaps unwisely left the former when a return to Everton became possible, explaining at the time that City felt like an affair whereas Everton was a marriage.
(17) Resolution is needed of the non-health-related problems--including confidentiality and the possible loss of job, insurance, and friends--that make it difficult or unwise to advocate widespread screening for antibody to the AIDS virus at this point.
(18) Banks said May was unwise to reject the help offered by Farage, especially given his close relationship with Bannon, who ran the rightwing Breitbart news website before going to work for Trump.
(19) But it would be unwise for Labour's stance on the government's proposals to suggest we are conceding rather than contesting the reform territory.
(20) Drawing a link with DPT was especially unwise because Osborne had previously promised the new measure would force technology companies to unwind their complex tax structures which “ abuse the trust of the British people ”.