impolitic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪmˈpɒ.lɪ.tɪk/(UK)

Definition of impolitic

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not in accordance with good policy.
    “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!”
    “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 […].”
    “And thereafter it became impolitic to say anything critical about the Harris sprint.”

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Etymology

From im- + politic.

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