impolitic

Example Sentences

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These factors led Democrats to leap into the race to replace her before she announced her intentions — a move that would previously have been considered impolitic.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’m compulsively impolitic and tactless. … I can’t write about people, which is why I write about inanimate objects,” he told Interview magazine in 2014.

From Washington Post

Generally, everyone in my workplace are all weirdos and impolitic, and also great friends, but I need a little extra help with politeness in this case.

From Washington Post

McConnell's impolitic reasoning was his justification for opposing the John Lewis Voting Rights bill.

From Salon

The story behind the music — like everything with a diva who has been bravely, if at times impolitically, open about her professional and personal struggles — is complicated.

From Los Angeles Times