impolicy

Definitions

The state or act of being impolitic.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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

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