(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.
Unwise
Definition:
(a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(2) It was considered unwise to treat amenorrhea with combined estrogens and progestagens because metrorrhagia ensued.
(3) Some of the ones they've sent to the European parliament, one of them got sent to prison , others had to send back a lot of money because they all believed what they were saying about the Brussels gravy train and rather unwisely tried to take advantage of it.
(4) Mentioning those values may have been deemed unwise, given the hyper-secularised culture of the new Länder .
(5) There is serious concern that some physicians may be unwisely abandoning well tested treatment methods because of the premature dissemination of early results of some trials.
(6) For the purpose of developmental evaluation of growing children and the nutritional assessment of individuals or populations, reliance on current North American standards for size, maturational timing, body fatness or osseous development may be unwise not only with respect to various African, Asiatic and Pacific populations but often with respect to adults and children in North America.
(7) The ACF’s chief executive, Kelly O’Shanassy, said: “The last federal budget was widely seen as unfair and unwise, cutting funding for science and environment.
(8) Since approximately half of the persons with contact allergy to neomycin will also react to gentamicin, it seems unwise to treat such patients with other intravenous aminoglycosides that are closely related chemically.
(9) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(10) However, because of the biases associated with screening it would be unwise to advocate a nationwide programme until the results of the controlled trials now in progress are available.
(11) We believe it is unwise to discharge asthmatics from hospital until the diurnal variation in their peak flow is below 20%.
(12) David Davis, the leading Conservative rightwing MP, said it was unwise to build a policy on a single case, but claimed that as many as one or two in 100 parents were having an extra child due to the prospect of child benefit.
(13) We live in an age of confident political predictions that are repeatedly proven to be unwise, but this was an outcome that was never in serious doubt.
(14) However, it appears unwise to categorically refute the repetition of congenital toxoplasmosis in siblings.
(15) This may never happen, but it would be unwise to bet that way.
(16) He did a good job of helping Manchester City and Sheffield United out of the doldrums, but perhaps unwisely left the former when a return to Everton became possible, explaining at the time that City felt like an affair whereas Everton was a marriage.
(17) Resolution is needed of the non-health-related problems--including confidentiality and the possible loss of job, insurance, and friends--that make it difficult or unwise to advocate widespread screening for antibody to the AIDS virus at this point.
(18) Banks said May was unwise to reject the help offered by Farage, especially given his close relationship with Bannon, who ran the rightwing Breitbart news website before going to work for Trump.
(19) But it would be unwise for Labour's stance on the government's proposals to suggest we are conceding rather than contesting the reform territory.
(20) Drawing a link with DPT was especially unwise because Osborne had previously promised the new measure would force technology companies to unwind their complex tax structures which “ abuse the trust of the British people ”.