impolitic

• impolitick (obsolete)

From im- +‎ politic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɒ.lɪ.tɪk/

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impolitic (comparative more impolitic, superlative most impolitic)

1. Not in accordance with good policy.

   Synonyms: unwise, inexpedient, unadvisable

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

     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!

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 210:

     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 […] .

   • 2024 November 8, Ross Douthat, “How Democrats Helped Trump”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     And thereafter it became impolitic to say anything critical about the Harris sprint.

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• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impolitic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “impolitic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.