unpoliticadj.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxv He imagined that all mischiefes..whiche chaunced in the common wealth should bee imputed and assigned to his vnpolitike doyng.

1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth x. f. 33 It might seeme..to bee no bad, nor vnpollitique way, for the conteyning of so large a Commonwealth.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 54 An opinion both ungodly, unpolitic, unvertuous, and void of all honesty & civil sense.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity vi. 17 It had been the most unpolitick action..to offer them any strange God to worship.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 54 The Circumstances, and Proceedings..were very Unpolitick, and even Destructive to the Services intended.

1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 268 The great slaughter..put their affairs into a condition, which rendered it very unpolitick to provoke new enemies.

1826 Glasgow Herald 6 Feb. 1/2 There was never any thing more unpolitic, therefore, than government supporting the moderate Clergy.

1872 Albany Law Jrnl. 27 Mar. 177/1 Certainly nothing can be more unpolitic than to reduce the salaries of our judges.

1925 F. E. Lumley Means of Social Control iv. 90 If it is sometimes dangerous, or at least unpolitic, to offer advice, it is always diplomatic and complimentary to ask it.

2005 Times 18 July (T2 section) 9/2 It seems unpolitic to put the message across that dedicating yourself to the rearing of happy.., kind future citizens..is worthy of sainthood.