How to Use undiplomatic in a Sentence

undiplomatic

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• The in-your-face thing at the NATO headquarters was pretty undiplomatic.
  — Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler, New York Times, 27 May 2017
• Mr Pompeo has held some undiplomatic positions: against the Iran deal and in favour of regime change in North Korea, for instance.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• On Tuesday, in a series of startling and undiplomatic tweets, Trump threw the leader of oil-rich Qatar under the diplomatic bus.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 7 June 2017
• Those leaks seemed intended to portray Trump as naïve and undiplomatic.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Quartz: In a nutshell, why are China’s diplomats sometimes so undiplomatic?
  — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2021
• The two have had highly undiplomatic relations, hissing and swiping at each other.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• And soon, many in China’s Foreign Ministry were aping Zhao’s undiplomatic style of diplomacy.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• Throughout the talks this week, Russian diplomats tweeted undiplomatic messages seeking to intimidate, or perhaps to rile up the folks at home.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• Trudeau's broadside of Trump was a notable coda to a relationship marked by some notably undiplomatic moments.
  — Aamer Madhani, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• Instead of playing the role of professional diplomats, a growing number of them post undiplomatic comments there.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• This inference was, at least, undiplomatic and, perhaps, reckless.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
• Haley is Trump’s most presentable emissary to the world: the diplomatic face of a profoundly undiplomatic presidency.
  — Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Dec. 2017
• But the undiplomatic exchanges that played out in front of cameras are a symbolic sign of the deep strain in U.S.-Chinese relations, even for the Biden administration and its calls to find areas of cooperation.
  — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Earlier in the negotiations the German side tried to push matters in ways that were considered undiplomatic by Namibia.
  — Quartz Africa, 10 Aug. 2019
• These were the most undiplomatic remarks in Trump’s interview (if not, in the modern history of Anglo-American relations).
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2018
• The Philippine government under the famously foul-mouthed Rodrigo Duterte has at times conducted its diplomacy with the most undiplomatic of language.
  — Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 3 May 2021
• Philippine President Rodrigo Duerte has become known for his impressions, as well as his use of colorful and at times undiplomatic language.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2017
• His cajoling, threats, and insults—however coarse and undiplomatic—did create a sense of urgency among European leaders that forced them to answer his concerns.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 2 July 2022
• There are few more notorious hard-liners in Washington than Bolton, a 69-year-old former diplomat known for being profoundly undiplomatic.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• In defending his undiplomatic language, Bolton told Senators that it had been cleared by relevant officials and that Hubbard had personally thanked him for it.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 23 Mar. 2018
• Trump’s undiplomatic attack on May, his host, will likely raise the temperature around an already controversial visit.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• Chinese diplomats are using President Trump’s favorite platform to say decidedly undiplomatic things in the global square.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2019
• That is good and bad for Europe, given that Trump’s anger that Europe isn’t active enough in global security issues was largely an undiplomatic reformulation of frustrations from the Obama years.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Yet as my research shows, Grenell’s intervention was also undiplomatic for another reason.
  — Geoffrey Gertz, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
• That undiplomatic language riled a D.C. establishment concerned with how Pyongyang could react to the seemingly no calculation counterpunching method Trump has comfortably settled into at home.
  — Ali Vitali, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2017
• Trump sent Erdogan a remarkably undiplomatic letter, first reported by Fox Business, cajoling and threatening the Turkish president.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
• The hilarious — and realistic — scene in which Nella firmly but diplomatically confronts the white author’s stereotypical depiction of a young Black woman is unforgettable, as is his undiplomatic reaction.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024