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inconducive

[ in-kuhn-doo-siv, -dyoo- ]

adjective

  1. not conducive; tending to be harmful or injurious:

    inconducive to the public good.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of inconducive1

First recorded in 1840–50; in- 3 + conducive
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Example Sentences

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He also called on the government to "give urgent thought" to improving school buildings, saying poorly ventilated classrooms are "inconducive to work".

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Neither character speaks in ordinary conversive terms, but rather astonishingly articulate volleys of philosophical argument and counter-argument, theoretically incisive but inconducive to plausibility.

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The trouble with the meals, however, was not only that we were all kept at a very high strain of alertness and attention, singularly inconducive to the enjoyment of food or to the sober business of digestion, but that they were of such interminable length.

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