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US
/ˈpɑɫəˌtɪk/
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[ UK /pˈɒlətˌɪk/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒlətˌɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
a shrewd and politic reply
it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels
a politic manager
a politic decision
a politic old scoundrel -
smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
How To Use politic In A Sentence
- In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
- The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
- You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
- In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
- The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
- Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
- Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
- Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
- The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
- The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
