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impolitic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

impolitic (comparative more impolitic, superlative most impolitic)

  • Not in accordance with good policy.
    • ✤ Synonyms: unwise, inexpedient, unadvisable
    • ✤ On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have been highly impolitic for my chief to have given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!1
    • ✤ Even when it was impolitic to admire, let alone name, Evagrius, his descriptions of progress in the spiritual life could not be and were not ignored […].2
    • ✤ And thereafter it became impolitic to say anything critical about the Harris sprint.3

Etymology

From im- + politic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ɪmˈpɒ.lɪ.tɪk/
  • Audio (US): 🔊

Printed 2026-09-04.

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Footnotes

  1. 1956 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 4: ↩

  2. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 210: ↩

  3. 2024 November 8, Ross Douthat, “How Democrats Helped Trump”, in The New York Times ‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC: ↩

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