Definitions

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  • adjective Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.

Etymologies

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From in- +‎ conducive

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Examples

  • "The activities at the institution that have extended during the last 10 days have created an inconducive environment for academic activities putting lives and property at risk," Illunga said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • That, I thought, was the price tenants paid for the view: bedrooms on the street side, inconducive to sleep.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • 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.

    An Adventure with a Genius Alleyne Ireland

  • 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.

    An Adventure With A Genius Ireland, Alleyne, 1871-1951. 1n 1920

  • He is a remarkable instance of genius exhibiting itself in the Negro race, although, as in most other cases, having to contend with circumstances very inconducive to the free growth either of the moral qualities, or the intellectual faculties of the mind.

    Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race. 1848

  • The assumption that gender parity in all things is inconducive to sustainable propagation arrives at the footstep of the ideas in Steve Sailer's article "The Return of Patriarchy?".

    The Audacious Epigone 2009

  • We’re left feeling completely disconnected from these actions, approached with a nonchalance that is both boring and inconducive.

    Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert Would Love To Visit BRUGES Again! 2008

  • We’re left feeling completely disconnected from these actions, approached with a nonchalance that is both boring and inconducive.

    Flixnjoystix.com! » 2008 » July 2008

  • I would ask this because such behavior is divisive, it creates a feeling of an us and a them that is inconducive to a smooth flowing workforce. "

    CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2009 2009

  • 'what' and the 'why' of the work that needs to be done and leave the employees to determine the 'how' without burdening them with strict instruction manuals or prescribed rules and patterns that are largely redundant and inconducive to speed, creativity, progress and innovation.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

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