How to Use impolitic in a Sentence

impolitic

adjective

• The event was raucous and impolitic and placed Fox News at the center of the primary.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 22 June 2019
• Their endless verbiage makes some long for silence — for the bliss of quiet and the end of the impolitic phrase.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• Now maybe the phrasing is impolitic, but that was the version going around.
  — Janna Levin, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2016
• This was in some respects an impolitic, even impolite, thing for the first-term politician to say.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020
• In a lot of circles this would be a radical notion, or at least an impolitic one.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• The latest comments may be his most impolitic and unhelpful, though.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• Like the president-elect, Mr. Son has been known for sometimes impolitic remarks.
  — Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
• Keith’s latest album, The Bus Songs, compiles new and old material born of men hanging out on a bus and making impolitic chitchat.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Jarrar has a right to speak, and setting the precedent that professors should be fired for saying gross, atrocious or impolitic things seems like a serious problem.
  — Anna North, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
• And Anthony Scaramucci did it for 10 days before being shown the door for impolitic and profane comments about colleagues.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Mar. 2018
• Of course, the real answer, however impolitic, is that refugees shouldn’t be a political issue.
  — Randall Lane, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• As with any historic document, some of the diary entries are impolitic by today’s standards, but this should not diminish the importance of this book.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Johnson has repeatedly run into trouble for off-the-cuff and impolitic remarks.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 8 June 2018
• But he was ultimately forced from the air because his views were so impolitic stations eventually could not tolerate them.
  — Bill Carter For Cnn Busniess Perspectivies, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
• And the newfound alliance with Democrats is set to be short-lived, erased by the next impolitic presidential comment or by Democratic demands contravening Trump's agenda.
  — Zeke J Miller, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• But Mia’s wry crotchetiness, impolitic humor, and even some of her preoccupations weren’t all that foreign to Fisher’s public persona.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 May 2017
• But if deductive reasoning is not enough to sway you, there's also the fact that a Republican is occasionally impolitic enough to admit the chicanery outright.
  — Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• Even Republicans who drink endless war like Olympian nectar concede that Suleimani’s killing was impolitic vengeance with no clear security advantage.
  — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2020
• In this age of globalization, toughened border restrictions seem one obvious, if impolitic, step.
  — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• A boastful, proudly disruptive politician, Trump often has been rewarded for saying impolite and impolitic things.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2017
• In recent decades, Bierstadt’s reputation has suffered from accusations of commercialism and impolitic visions of the West; here he is largely rescued, but perhaps with too much fervor.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 25 June 2018
• Despite abundant criticism for his blunt and impolitic rhetoric as Metro board chairman, Evans helped focus the region’s attention on the need for dedicated funding for the transit system and aggressive steps to catch up on overdue maintenance.
  — Robert McCartney, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• Critics, repulsed by Trump’s impolitic language and mannerisms, are reluctant to give him credit, ascribing improvements to processes in motion prior to his arrival in office or broader systemic forces.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 8 Jan. 2018
• Many others from public-facing institutions and businesses have been sanctioned, demoted, suspended, or fired for impolitic statements online in recent days.
  — Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 4 June 2020
• The limp origin story of Many Saints insidiously endorses impolitic behavior.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021
• Opinions vary on whether Mr. Trump’s attacks on fellow Republicans are impolitic or unappreciated genius.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• A wave of campus activism has put college presidents across the country on the defensive, distancing themselves from impolitic professors, historical figures with checkered pasts, and culturally insensitive athletic mascots.
  — William Stadiem, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2016

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