undiplomatic

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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

That undiplomatic language was a rare media misstep and contrasts with No 10's expectation that Mandelson will be a far safer pair of hands with journalists than his predecessor, outgoing ambassador Dame Karen Pierce.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 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

Among this number was his brother-in-law, John Cornwall, and two truculent and undiplomatic secretaries who had charge of the work with the Twenty-seventh Army Corps at Carpi.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph