impolicyn.
/ɪmˈpɒlɪsi/ The quality of being impolitic; bad policy; inexpediency.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [noun]
unexpediency1607
inexpedience1608
inexpediency1641
unpoliticness1654
impoliticness1680
impoliticalness1695
impolicy1747
inadvisedness1774
unpracticalness1828
unadvisableness1833
inadvisability1839
unpracticality1840
undesirability1870
1747 D. Mallet Amyntor & Theodora Pref. 11 Those who governed Scotland under him, with no less cruelty than impolicy, made the people of that country desperate.
1798 Earl Mornington Minutes 12 Aug. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 45 An act of such flagrant impolicy and injustice.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. viii. 552 The war itself was produced by the king's impolicy.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 370 [They] expressed themselves in no measured terms at the impolicy of this most foolish action.
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