impolicy

British  

/ ɪmˈpɒlɪsɪ /

noun

1. the act or an instance of being unjudicious or impolitic

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Example Sentences

“It is not the province of the court to decide upon the justice or injustice, the policy or impolicy, of these laws. The decision of that question belonged to the political or lawmaking power.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2015

He spoke contemptuously of the impolicy by which we had been deprived of our privileges, and declared his determination to place us on a height from which we might move the world.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Not long afterwards Mr. Colburn saw the impolicy of his scheme.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

Besides this impolicy, the American war, from 1776 to 1782, cost this country two thousand, two hundred, and seventy millions, and a half.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

Trumbull and Schurz opposed the bill by speech and by vote, the former on the ground of unconstitutionality, the latter chiefly on the ground of impolicy, although he also considered it unconstitutional.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace