impolitic
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And Mr. Trump has plenty of company, including several presidents, in the department of salty language and impolitic statements.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
That Ogles wasn’t entirely wrong, just a touch impolitic.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026
An opera disguised as an oratorio to get around the church’s ban on profane opera, the impolitic work about past and present is formed as the conflict between extravagance and sanctity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025
The main takeaways: Mullenweg may have had a point, but he raised it in a rather impolitic manner—at an event that WP Engine itself sponsored with cash, no less.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2024
It was a ridiculous notion, as well as petty and impolitic, but he hadn’t been able to resist.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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