Sample Sentences forpolitic (auto-selected)
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The question, unintended, came out more brusquely than was politic.† (source)
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It was not politic, but as always, I couldn't keep an insult in when it wanted to come out.† (source)
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Situated as I was, it was not politic to insist upon it.† (source)
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I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.† (source)
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"Well," said Nigel, stalling for something politic, "they're ...I suppose one should say ..."† (source)
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I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain't discussing no politic.† (source)
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Yet with some they have afterwards made peace, none the worse for being politic.† (source)
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It makes it impolitic for any city official to oppose Lee in any of his little housing ventures.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impolitic means not and reverses the meaning of politic. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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And so he had never heard of the refined priestly concept of indulgence, under which even a sacrament was included—marriage, to be precise, which unlike the other sacraments was not a positive good, but a defense against sin, conferred solely to limit sensual desire and to instill moderation, so that the ascetic principle, the ideal of chastity, might be affirmed without defying the flesh with unpolitic severity?† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpolitic means not and reverses the meaning of politic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Thus have I politicly begun my reign, And 'tis my hope to end successfully.† (source)
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A more politic subject was tried.† (source)
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When I'm invited for dinner (as I am, often, when I'm in town) it's all very pleasant and light, voluble even, intimate and subtle while not at all personal; I'm treated like a family member (almost), welcome to turn up when I want; I've been able to coax Mrs. Barbour out of the apartment a bit, we've had some pleasant afternoons out, lunch at the Pierre and an auction or two; and Toddy, without being impolitic in the least, has even managed to let casually and almost accidentally drop the name of a very good doctor, with no suggestion whatever that I might possibly need such a thing.† (source)
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A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life.† (source)
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On the contrary, it was easy to see how, over the years, Pete's reponses to Daddy had been more honest than Ty's, destructive but at least not duplicitous, impolitic but passionate, angry but never self-serving, and almost noble in the last four years, after Rose's revelations about what Daddy had done to her.† (source)
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If not the horse, then the lion, if not the lion, then the woman, if not the woman, then the war, then the politic, then the whiskey.† (source)
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A rather impolitic remark, as Ustinov wore the uniform of a marshal of the Soviet Union, earned for his Party work and industrial management, it nevertheless demonstrated that Filitov was a true New Soviet Man, proud of what he was and mindful of his limitations.† (source)
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