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a dangerous, but practicable plan
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But we did try very hard not to let it be known abroad that we were trying to make it practicable.† (source)practicable = able to be done; or useful
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The council listened, then voiced agreement that a "vigorous attempt" should be made, but only when "practicable."† (source)
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Of course, I do not know his situation, and I do not want him to engage a superior force, but I do want him to take that hill, if he thinks practicable, as soon as possible.† (source)
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Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out.† (source)
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It would hardly be practicable to fold a blanket of blubber twenty centimetres thick around that framework.† (source)
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Yes, patent, with a gold seal and red ribbons too if that had been practicable.† (source)practicable = able to be done; or useful
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The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.† (source)impracticable = not able to be done; or not usefulstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticable means not and reverses the meaning of practicable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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And yet how, as she now so often asked herself at moments when she was confronted by some desire which ran counter to her sense of practicability and social morality, was she to do?† (source)practicability = the quality of being possible or useful
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With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.† (source)impracticability = the quality of not being possible or not being usefulstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticability means not and reverses the meaning of practicability. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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Well, now and then one, whom Nature makes so impracticably simple, truthful and faithful, that the worst possible influence can't destroy it.† (source)impracticably = in a way that is not able to be donestandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticably means not and reverses the meaning of practicably. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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What was the good, after all, of using up his spare hours in a vague labour called "private study" without giving an outlook on practicabilities?† (source)
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No. Aside from the ethics of the matter, I'm afraid it isn't practicable.† (source)practicable = able to be done; or useful
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No matter what dishonorable compromise you've made with your impracticable creed, no matter what miserable balance, half-cynicism, half-superstition, you now manage to maintain, you still preserve the root, the lethal tenet: the belief that the moral and the practical are opposites.† (source)impracticable = not able to be done; or not useful
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When the plumbing was all in and Carley saw verification of Hoyle's assurance that it would mean a gravity supply of water ample and continual, she lost her last concern as to the practicability of the work.† (source)practicability = the quality of being possible or useful
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Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.† (source)impracticability = the quality of not being possible or not being useful
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