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Recent Examples of impolitic
Even some in the opposition complained that the booing was impolitic.
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Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impolitic
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And this is Minsky’s point, that speculative excesses during euphoric, transformative periods result in imprudent financing, fragility, and instability.
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Additional charges included 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.
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Your tactless or tactile uncles?
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This response rewards the tactless well-wisher.
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And again, many of the reforms backfired or proved injudicious, but some of them remain powerful to this day.
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These injudicious, blunt-force tariffs do get undone almost as quickly as they are slapped on, thank heavens.
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Zelensky formally responded on Saturday in a decidedly undiplomatic post on X, subtly trashing the Polish government for revoking his award while not doing so with other historical awardees that many would object to.
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Save the undiplomatic diplomats.
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Eating an entire bag in one sitting is inadvisable for nearly everyone.
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The frame was actually lifted, so that the piping from the turbo to the engine could be technically feasible, even if inadvisable in real life.
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Martin-Cotten’s is an indelicate balance between out and out primal furies, parsed with flashes of vulnerability that seem as deeply felt as Martha’s self-loathing.
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Clutch effort is Herculean, and shifting is indelicate but immensely satisfying.
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Here, however, the joke is that appearances can be deceiving — or to be more specific, that trying to act like a character in a movie is a reckless, unwise thing to do.
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The owners likely would be unwise to roll out identical offers over and over.
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For Germans, displays of patriotism are broadly considered gauche, owing to the enduring national guilt from World War II.
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And where better to contrast our hero’s love of old world, old money aesthetics with the gauche American nouveau?
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“Impolitic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impolitic. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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