impolitic

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Recent Examples of impolitic His downfall came not with any of his policies, nor with his impolitic decision to attack America’s favorite pop music, but with an insensitive joke about a coal advisory panel that mortified the president. Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 16 June 2023 Even in the brusque world of old-school record executives, Mr. Stein could be startlingly impolitic. Ben Sisario, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023 His impolitic views were also hardly a secret. New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021 Yet even with a leader like Trump, who was often impolitic with his language and abrasive toward people of other cultures, the GOP was able to capture a sizable chunk of minority voters, enough to ensure Texas and Florida weren’t even close calls on election night. Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020 See all Example Sentences for impolitic 
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Adjective
  • After the March 19 incident, Huger, 61, was charged with a DUI and DWI, negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Noem has been an imprudent governor of South Dakota on COVID-19 policy and other issues.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That’s one of several reasons so many people battle Seasonal Affective Disorder—often shortened to the slightly tactless acronym SAD—in the winter, a recurrent form of depression that comes on during the colder, darker months.
    Kyle MacNeill, Vogue, 15 July 2024
  • Foreign audiences generally perceived the new diplomatic style as impolite and tactless.
    Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
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  • So maybe use the feelings aroused by your sister-in-law’s thoughtless, certainly injudicious, possibly naughty remark as an opportunity to rise above.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024
  • What The Meng Episode Means (1): Is Huawei A Tool of The CCP? Meng’s release, and injudicious remarks, do not bode well for Huawei.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have left world leaders scrambling to respond.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Aziz Taher/Reuters Indeed, Mr. Biden’s exasperation with Mr. Netanyahu exploded in a recent phone call between the two, when the president reportedly shouted at the Israeli prime minister and told him in heated undiplomatic terms to stop misleading him.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Doing it with a wideout whose next NFL catch will be his first is doubly inadvisable.
    Brandon Funston, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • As a bonus, the waxed rope bracelet looks great on men and women and is suitably lowkey for travelers who frequent destinations where flashy jewelry is inadvisable.
    Jessica Macdonald, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023
Adjective
  • Advertisement The president-elect’s style — brash, indelicate and pugilistic — is distilled in his son.
    Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • After Shkreli propositioned Duca via Twitter direct message, the Teen Vogue columnist responded with this, albeit indelicate, rejection.
    Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • The reason is very simple—the Noto palazzo was very gauche and fit for the party later in the season, to be thrown by Hollander’s character.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That would be too gauche, too legislative for the court.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 May 2022
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  • The Trump administration would also be unwise to ignore global institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, as doing so would dramatically raise the likelihood of unbounded conflict.
    Scott Kennedy, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The Santas are so popular that the tap-dancing number was reinstated about six years ago in response to audience demand after symphony officials made the unwise decision to drop the act from the event line-up.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2024

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