as in inappropriate
showing poor judgment especially in personal relationships or social situations
the reporter's undiplomatic references to the state's overweight governor
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Recent Examples of undiplomatic
His approach, however, is rhetorically more blunt and undiplomatic compared to most of his predecessors.
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Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Mar. 2025
This strength of feeling explains why trans-Atlantic relations were splintering before Friday’s undiplomatic scenes.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
Those seven words about the sordid reality TV franchise were really all Bill Maher had to say tonight on HBO’s Real Time of the Oval Office shouting match Friday after showing footage of the very undiplomatic exchange.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025
What alarms European officials is not just their exclusion from these talks, but also the undiplomatic way the United States has deprioritized European security.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
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Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Mar. 2025
This strength of feeling explains why trans-Atlantic relations were splintering before Friday’s undiplomatic scenes.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
Those seven words about the sordid reality TV franchise were really all Bill Maher had to say tonight on HBO’s Real Time of the Oval Office shouting match Friday after showing footage of the very undiplomatic exchange.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025
What alarms European officials is not just their exclusion from these talks, but also the undiplomatic way the United States has deprioritized European security.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undiplomatic
Adjective
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Over the following 12 days, investigators determined that Lulinski had used his cell phone on multiple occasions to take inappropriate and surreptitious photos or videos of minors during normal school activities.—
CBS Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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But inappropriate behavior toward and with subordinates is too often not a shocking secret within the halls of Congress.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This is the same Trump, after all, whose reaction to the shocking murder of beloved actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele was selfish and tactless, even for him.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
21 Mar. 2026
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This response rewards the tactless well-wisher.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The most successful and lucrative family vlogs are indiscreet almost by definition—and yet the wrong kind of indiscretion can derail the whole gravy train.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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Her homebase, Studio Siwa, is perched on an indiscreet corner in Burbank, California.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Some will argue that directing government dollars toward private news organizations amounts to an improper subsidy of private business.—
Julian Baron,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Apr. 2026
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His attorney has argued there is no legal basis for charges and accused prosecutors of using improper tactics.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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To be fair, those imprudent claims were made without the benefit of seeing this evidence.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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These injudicious, blunt-force tariffs do get undone almost as quickly as they are slapped on, thank heavens.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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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
Adjective
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The ambience of the chat rooms is like that of Hooters: visually indelicate but discursively family-friendly.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
13 Feb. 2026
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And then the second one is grassroots and bottom up and the local solutions to this thing that is a stupid business model.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2026
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Allowing one nine years of eligibility is just stupid.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Undiplomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undiplomatic. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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