politique

plural politiques

1. derogatoryA politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.

   Modern historical assessments of Cecil have veered from that of the cynical, secular politique to the image of the committed Protestant ideologue […]

   2012, Peter Marshall, “Occult Following”, in Literary Review, section 404

   Synonyms: politico

comparative more politique · superlative most politique

1. obsoleteObsolete form of politic.

   Politique Body

   1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Boldness”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

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   And surely me thinketh we cannot better bestowe our time on the Sea, then in aduice how to behaue our selues when we come to the shore: for greater daunger is there to ariue in a straunge countrey where the inhabitauntes be politique, then to be tossed with the troublesome waues, where the Marriners be vnskilfull.

   1579, John Lyly, Euphues and his England