"impolicy" meaning in English

See impolicy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: impolicies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} impolicy (countable and uncountable, plural impolicies)
  1. The state or act of being impolitic. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-impolicy-en-noun-DCvthg32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174:",
          "text": "The company pretty generally go out for a given time, and with a given sum in their pockets, which, in nine cases out often, admits of but little encroachment; and if the temptations of mixing in superior society and speculating in expensive novelties cause new demands on papas, or show mammas the impolicy of making them, nothing can be more probable than that a hasty retreat should be resolved on, the consequence of a \"summons from some sick or dying friend, of the most pressing nature.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 218:",
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