impolicy

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noun

The state or act of being impolitic.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounimpolicy (countable and uncountable, plural impolicies)

plural impolicies

  1. countableuncountableThe state or act of being impolitic.

    An impulse urged him to plant a sudden blow on it, by he forced himself to consider the impolicy of such an act.

    1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218
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    The company pretty generally go out for a given time, and with a given sum in their pockets, which, in nine cases out often, admits of but little encroachment; and if the temptations of mixing in superior society and speculating in expensive novelties cause new demands on papas, or show mammas the impolicy of making them, nothing can be more probable than that a hasty retreat should be resolved on, the consequence of a "summons from some sick or dying friend, of the most pressing nature.

    1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174
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