Meanings of as impolitic in English

The trade strongly objected to the restriction, as impolitic, vexatious, and impracticable.

Macchiavelli censures the Signory's conduct of this affair as impolitic.

But I have said that denunciations against dramsellers and dram-drinkers are unjust, as well as impolitic.

They, therefore, denounced the treatment of Boadicea as not only brutal but as impolitic in the extreme.

It would be as impolitic as unjust, when discussing the question with them, to deny that some such resemblance prevails.

His first expressed intention had been to go indoors with her, but this he abandoned as impolitic in the highest degree.

Both laws were evident violations of natural liberty, and therefore unjust; and they were both, too, as impolitic as they were unjust.

The exacting of usury has always been more or less practiced, and there has always been a contention against it as impolitic and wrong.

Hamilton regarded such legislation as impolitic, and, on hearing of the sedition bill, he wrote a protesting letter, saying, Let us not establish tyranny.