politically

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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 • Oct. 10, 2021

There are tens of thousands of e-mails in that trove, a lot of people speaking unguardedly, unwisely and impolitically.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2010

Denmark had never been engaged in so arduous a contest, and never did the Danes more nobly display their national courage—a courage not more unhappily than impolitically exerted in subserviency to the interests of France.

From The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Southey, Robert

Justinian, under these circumstances, very impolitically ordered that silk should be sold at the rate of eight pieces of gold for the pound, or about 3 l. 4s.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William

A record of misdemeanours impolitically kept by some officers for their private use—the very essence of private tyranny, now forbidden.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir