All 3 Uses of
politic
in
Bleak House
- I should be sorry to imply that Mr. Skimpole divined this and was politic; I really never understood him well enough to know.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- In a wellregulated body politic this natural desire on the part of a spirited young gentleman so highly connected would be speedily recognized, but somehow William Buffy found when he came in that these were not times in which he could manage that little matter either, and this was the second indication Sir Leicester Dedlock had conveyed to him that the country was going to pieces.†
Chpt 28-30
- It might be highly impolitic in Mr. C., after playing so long and so high, to leave off; it might be the reverse; I say nothing.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(politic) prudent, expedient, and shrewd