(a.) Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lebedev said it would be "impolite" for him to think about any influence on British politics.
(2) 2) Subjects who received impolite messages showed positive attitude change toward computers despite the impolite messages.
(3) But we suppress so much just because it's impolite."
(4) Subjects became aggressive when impolite message were given repeatedly.
(5) But there is also the legendary case of the renowned South Korean director Shin Sang-ok who was actually kidnapped in 1978 from Hong Kong on the orders of Kim Jong-il who wanted him to make films promoting the good name of North Korea — the South Koreans evidently accepted (or thought it impolitic publicly to dispute) Kim’s claim that Shin had come willingly.
(6) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
(7) And Gehry has a history of struggles with boards and impolitic comments.
(8) The frontrunner has spent much of the campaign apologising for impolite remarks about neighbours.
(9) But before the night ended, Minaj responded to criticism from the show’s host, Miley Cyrus, who had said in a New York Times interview last week that Minaj’s criticism was impolite and came from a place of jealousy.
(10) "But be punished in a way where people don't feel the managers are strange or weird or impolite people, or people without control."
(11) Taking a mobile phone picture of the emperor or his family is also considered impolite.
(12) I do, partly because it seems ungrateful and impolite not to, and partly because there's nothing else, really, to call oneself while retaining any connection to an original sense of justice.
(13) She declined to say how old she was, deeming it an “impolite question”, saying instead: “If you really need a number then go ahead and make it up based on my photographs”.
(14) Randall’s occasionally impolitic remarks made national headlines such as in 2010 when he referred to the national broadcaster as “Gay-BC”, and again in 2011 when he accused the mining industry of being “pussy -whipped” by Rudd’s successor, Julia Gillard, over the proposed mining tax.
(15) I believe at the end of the day I'll be seen as the 'impolite guy', the one who's aggressive in his words.
(16) But Judt's willingness to voice, as the New York Times recently put it, "impolite truths" brought attacks from fellow intellectuals.
(17) To act otherwise would have been “aggressive” and impolite.
(18) 5.05pm BST 1 min: The Dutch allow Australia to get some early touches at the back without any impolite pressure.
(19) Indeed, while the point of this study was to examine the medical profession's use of placebos, nobody seems impolite enough to point out that there are times when it's the patients' own fault if they end up smarting from a saline injection they didn't need.
(20) Giddings said that although he did not believe he had undermined or personally criticised Welby, he had apologised to the archbishop, who had since told him he had found nothing offensive, discourteous, impolite or disrespectful in his words.
Inexpedient
Definition:
(a.) Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its use in treatment of chlamydiosis proved inexpedient while ciprofloxacin was effective in the treatment of the infection.
(2) An opinion is sometimes requested on the future health of a child who is up for adoption when parental incest is a realistic possibility and it is impossible or inexpedient to acquire blood from both parents.
(3) Substitution adrenomimetic therapy for arresting collaptoid reactions is inexpedient.
(4) "Given the deadline imposed by the constitutional court it is inexpedient to await the passage through parliament of an act dealing with the situation," the 89-year-old said in a government notice.
(5) During a 20-year period 31 patients were treated at the clinic, 21 of them underwent operation, in 5 patients an operation was considered inexpedient, another 5 patients refused to be operated on.
(6) The lesions were apparently caused by an inexpedient pull on the catheter causing ischaemic necrosis of the urethral wall.
(7) Analysis of the data obtained indicated that any examination for shigellae during the extraepidemic period was inexpedient.
(8) Clinical data (110 observations over 106 cases) and experiments on animals proved the inexpediency of the peritonization of non-pertonized surfaces in children both in "pure" peritoneum and under the condition of a pronounced inflammation.
(9) Thus, the absence of prophylactic efficacy and the sensitizing action of antiinfluenza lactoglobulin pointed to the inexpediency of its use for prophylactic and therapeutic purpose.
(10) Results of the work carried out indicated the inexpediency of the treatment of this disease with a combination of levomycetin and phthalazol.
(11) The use of antitetanus serum (ATS) in the north taiga soil-vegetative zone and farther to the north is inexpedient because of an insignificant contamination of soil with B. tetani and a trivial contact of the population with soil.
(12) Lymphosorption is thought to be inexpedient in malignant tumors of the liver with the symptoms of cancer intoxication.
(13) It is substantiated as inexpedient to professionally train and to employ in operator positions the persons with predisposition to create accident as well as necessary to allow for individual-psychophysiological peculiarities of operators while investigating the causes of accidents.
(14) The combination of phenobarbital and pyrogenal has proved to be inexpedient.
(15) The authors found it inexpedient to make planned mass screening of children attending or just entering the preschool institutions.
(16) Under such conditions, it is inexpedient to select immune response modulators.
(17) On the basis of the present results and various other factors (ambiguity of the sources of the acoustic effects, expense of the procedure), application of acoustic analysis in forensic medicine for recognition of low-level alcohol intoxication is considered inexpedient.
(18) No causal relations may be inferred from the correlation between the level of trapezius activity and complaints, though it indicates that individual, inexpedient muscle activity patterns may constitute an important risk factor for development of musculo-skeletal complaints.
(19) Visualized cyclodialysis was carried out in 16 consecutive cases of operation-demanding glaucoma, where trabeculectomy was considered inexpedient.
(20) The purpose of this investigation was to establish how often the hormonal pattern indicated ovulation in uremic women and, thereby, the possibility of an inexpedient pregnancy.