impracticality

I resent comments on the impracticality of small cars.

我对说小骄车的说法。

This would seem to be a complimentary term, but in point of fact it is not, for it has picked up associations of impracticality and ineffectuality and general dopiness.

这看起来是称赞的词语，但是事是。因为它有切际的、无益的和大致麻痹状态的联想。