Example sentences for: impolitic

How can you use “impolitic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • George McGovern was so impolitic he favored school busing even though 52 percent of blacks opposed it.

  • Anyhow, I have an impolitic question: Have any of the big disasters we've been serially warned about for the last 20 years (multiple hurricanes, one or two comets, mobs of starving children post-welfare-reform, etc.) actually occurred in New York?

  • Magnet's view is probably impolitic (though maybe less so than Wolf and Press think).

  • Other big factors: the tobacco lobby's impolitic attempt to slip a $50 billion rebate into the budget bill, and the widespread belief that if the companies are willing to pay $368 billion, they must be able to afford more.

  • And I guess what I mean by a revival of liberalism is more the inevitably silly-looking but ultimately more-good-than-bad kind of guilty, upper-middle-class and rich-person liberalism that makes excess impolitic and unstylish, the way it was before 1982, and increases the (individual) American impulse toward philanthropy and generosity.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast