How To Use Impolitic In A Sentence
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Maybe your were wrong on the facts or maybe what you said was impolitic, but you got a word of correction from a spouse, or boss, or friend.
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That extreme, impolitic candor was one of the characteristics that made Rice a perfect rebel and a considerably less perfect leader.
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Although, if I were "impolitical," I probably wouldn't have used the phrase "fresh meat.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Of course it might be impolitic to antagonize these groups.
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an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue
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But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses.
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It would have been impolitic to refuse his offer.
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The secretary of defense had evidently concluded that to agree to the reinforcements would be impolitic.
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In fact it sometimes seemed as if the hosts feared that an impolitic remark might trigger World War III.
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It was considered impolitic of him to spend too much time with the party radicals.
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The politically cowardly crowd believe that it is impolitic to be opposed to anything.
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Some of the lenders have also had reservations about offering debt relief, although it is impolitic to air them too loudly.
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I agree with a great deal of what impolitical writes but I can't get past the Liberals right-or-wrong partisanship.
Must. Read.
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But it would be impolitic to blame the government which, the Post reminds us, has spent billions of dollars on urban renewal.
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One impolitic move, one unkind remark, one wrong motion - and it will boil over to the detriment of one and all.
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There's no mystery that impolitical is a favourite of this site.
Red Sweater Vests, Go!
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As "impolitical" pointed out back here, some of the more retarded conservative pundits have decided to make this a "free speech" issue:
Archive 2008-04-01
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Considering it impolitic to agree, Cazaril merely bowed, and withdrew to make himself ready to go down to dinner.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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It might be impolitic to refuse his offer.
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Sadly for Frum and the rest of his brain-damaged colleagues in the Wank-o-sphere, "impolitical" gives us part deux:
Conscam: Don't be bringing that "free speech" argument in here.
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It was necessary, on this account, that Lord Sinclair should disinherit his eldest son; and "as it would," says Sir Walter Scott, "have been highly impolitic to have alleged his forfeiture for treason as a cause of the deed, the slaughter of the Schaws was given as a reason for his exheredation.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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He got himself into trouble with some impolitic statements early in the campaign, but got his act together in time, it seems.
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Then he did something audacious, if not outright impolitic.
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Though widely acknowledged as a dazzling strategist, his impolitic, in-your-face bravado clashed with the staid Air Force culture.
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Once again, via "impolitical," the very thing we've been chatting about here:
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It would have been impolitic to refuse his offer.
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There are tens of thousands of e-mails in that trove, a lot of people speaking unguardedly, unwisely and impolitically.
You shall know them by their work
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Confidence in regards to what, the Duke wanted to ask, but decided it would be impolitic.
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China's leaders must also have considered the possibility that their current entente with Russia may not last forever, although they may find it impolitic to say so.
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It might be impolitic to refuse his offer.
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He says what he thinks and does what he thinks will work; his plain and sometimes impolitic speaking does him good with voters.
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They were a grievous burden to her; she would much have liked to put them in the fire; and once Mr. Moore, who had observed her sitting and sighing over them, had proposed a private incremation in the counting-house; but to this proposal Caroline knew it would have been impolitic to accede - the result could only be a fresh pair of hose, probably in worse condition.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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A better analogy (though still an impolitic one) would have been traffic fatalities.
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Then he jerked as he realized he did recognize her and his jaw fell open in a most impolitic stare.
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His impolitic bluntness ultimately got the best of him.
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He does not easily take no for an answer, and he seems to have no inhibitions about embarrassing his former friends with impolitic remarks, especially if they help him in next month's elections.
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That week, the UK press broke the story, and it seemed impolitic for him to return at that moment.
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But the trustees wanting to macadamize the miserably pitched street of the town, he bethought him of dust in summer and mud in winter, and drew up a long memorial to the lords of the soil, remonstrating with them on their impolitic conduct; but all in vain.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829
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Either it was impolitic to make this question his defining issue, or he did not feel confident of his own facility in making the argument.
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Stiffing the UN and threatening retaliation against key Security Council members may have been impolitic and ill-judged.
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So hard, so dangerous, that it's impolitic for Kerry to say it, but if Clift is writing it, you know millions of folks are thinking it.
Archive 2004-10-01
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He said what he thought, but now he's withdrawing it, because it was impolitic.