"impolitic" meaning in English

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          "text": "Even when it was impolitic to admire, let alone name, Evagrius, his descriptions of progress in the spiritual life could not be and were not ignored […].",
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          "text": "And thereafter it became impolitic to say anything critical about the Harris sprint.",
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        "Not in accordance with good policy."
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          "roman": "netaktičen",
          "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
          "word": "нетактичен"
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          "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
          "word": "onpolitiek"
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          "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
          "word": "onverstandig"
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          "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
          "word": "onoordeelkundig"
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          "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
          "word": "anchreeney"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "netaktičen",
      "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
      "word": "нетактичен"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
      "word": "onpolitiek"
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      "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
      "word": "onverstandig"
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      "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
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      "sense": "not in accordance with good policy",
      "word": "anchreeney"
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