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Meanings of politic in English
Usage of politic in English
1
Only after that question was answered would he ask: is it politic?
2
My temper rising, I sipped my wine to consider a politic answer.
3
Yet no schism will assail the general order of the body politic.
4
The Ruffian becomes one of the established orders of the body politic.
5
Also I instance men of standing in the loose Indian body politic.
6
The Jingo fever having abated, another malady appeared in the body politic.
7
Edward was choleric and stern in his choler, but judicious and politic.
8
The Abbe Maritime was a politic man, and believed in being diplomatic.
9
The country is better off, but the body politic is in disarray.
10
In this generation, in this dispensation, you be most politic, most witty.
11
The truth would serve her better here than a lie, however politic.
12
The politic historian thought it prudent to qualify his remark before publication.
13
War, famine, and pestilence, the usual cures for corruption in bodies politic.
14
In this dearth of mundane satisfaction, we contract politic alliances with shadows.
15
In truth, to all probable calculation, his change of purpose was politic.
16
Pierre showed none of the international politic that usually was second nature.
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Politic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common