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Problems with free trade in the body politic are also multifaceted.† (source)
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Yet in their dissents, Justices Stevens, Souter, and Breyer displayed ... a strange solicitude for speculative future harm to the body politic at the expense of manifest actual harm to flesh and blood low-income citizens in the here and now.† (source)
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But she could also tell when it was more politic not to know exactly what that something might be.† (source)
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I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain't discussing no 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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The question, unintended, came out more brusquely than was politic.† (source)
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Someone like Thomas Pynchon (although, as Chapter 1 suggests, it's not clear there is anyone like Pynchon except Pynchon), who seems on one level to be hiding from the body politic, is profoundly political in his concern over the individual's relationship to "America."† (source)
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It makes it impolitic for any city official to oppose Lee in any of his little housing ventures.† (source)impolitic = not prudentstandard 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)unpolitic = not prudent or shrewdstandard 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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Changes were still reverberating through the body politic over the losses suffered in the Horvath attacks.† (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)impolitic = not prudent
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The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals.† (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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Yet with some they have afterwards made peace, none the worse for being politic.† (source)
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Another reason for making women and girls the focus of antipoverty programs has to do with an impolitic secret of global poverty: Some of the most wretched suffering is caused not just by low incomes, but also by unwise spending—by men.† (source)
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