undiplomatic

Example Sentences

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Pretoria summoned the new US ambassador Wednesday to explain "undiplomatic remarks" about South African racial policies and court decisions, the foreign minister said.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

His prior public service, as councilor, then deputy mayor, of a Sydney suburb ended abruptly in 2009 amid displays of undiplomatic temper.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

A former Greek foreign minister known for his undiplomatic outbursts and on whose watch Greece suffered one of its most embarrassing foreign policy debacles in 1999.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

And outside the negotiating room, Russian diplomats were using increasingly undiplomatic language.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Such a language may have seemed to the American minister candid and honest, but addressed to Bonaparte and Talleyrand it was very undiplomatic, to say the least.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert