inconducive

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

adjective

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

   inconducive to the public good.

Word History and Origins

Origin of inconducive¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg