"impolitic" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means "showing a lack of wisdom or good judgment in speech or actions." For example, "The chief of staff's impolitic remarks about the company's interns were met with swift disapproval."
The problem is that these days it is not only impolitic for Labour politicians to choose to educate their children privately; they must also choose the "right" sort of state school.
It would be impolitic to repeat all the stinging stories, good as they are.
The problem for hawks like Messrs Bush and Rubio is that this is an impolitic thing to say.
Mr Glaeser responded that he understood that, but that it was the academic's job to argue for good policies, however impolitic they might be.
Mr Ecclestone competed with himself to make impolitic, cynical statements the protests, he said, were nothing more than "a few skirmishes"—and left the sport looking greedy and out of touch.In November last year Bahrain's government published an independent report into human-rights abuses committed by its security forces.
The authors also finger the information revolution: a job applicant these days could be undone by a criminal record, a poor credit history or even an impolitic Facebook posting, all of which are easy to find online.
But, as the Republican establishment has discovered over the past two years, sometimes fundamentalism is impolitic.
North Korea and Iran have long been collaborating on building missiles; the two are thought to have worked together in Iran to improve on basic North Korean missile designs at times when it has been impolitic for the North to test for itself.
In 1999, he remarked that relationships between teachers and pupils could be "educative"— true, but impolitic, given that Mr Woodhead himself once had an affair with a former pupil.
Certainly, it would be impolitic for the government to hold itself to such a demanding standard.
HIGH praise indeed for Nancy Pelosi, from Charlie Cook at National Journal: I have not been the chairman of Pelosi's fan club, often finding some of her statements and actions a bit impolitic and timing less than impeccable.
