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as in imprudent
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as in tactless
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impolitic
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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
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Noem has been an imprudent governor of South Dakota on COVID-19 policy and other issues.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Dec. 2024
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At the end of the day, Cooper's guilty of being tactless.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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The interviews were jocular, an approach that seemed tactless, given the film’s subject matter.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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So why would someone well versed in Trumpian tactics and the nuance of Middle East diplomacy give such an undiplomatic assessment?—
Nic Robertson,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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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
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The need for such warnings peaks around the times of solar eclipses, of course, when people have a tendency for inadvisable sun observations.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
16 Jan. 2025
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Doing it with a wideout whose next NFL catch will be his first is doubly inadvisable.—
Brandon Funston,
The Athletic,
16 Aug. 2024
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Advertisement The president-elect’s style — brash, indelicate and pugilistic — is distilled in his son.—
Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Nov. 2024
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After Shkreli propositioned Duca via Twitter direct message, the Teen Vogue columnist responded with this, albeit indelicate, rejection.—
Issie Lapowsky,
WIRED,
4 Aug. 2017
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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
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That would be too gauche, too legislative for the court.—
Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
19 May 2022
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That sometimes is thought of as an unwise Oscar strategy since playing that far in advance can lead to other films getting more attention at the fall festivals, but with many Cannes titles getting their North American premieres at Telluride or Toronto, that is becoming a moot point.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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The officer corps must obey the president’s lawful commands, even if officers judge them unwise.—
Ronald R. Krebs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Impolitic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impolitic. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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