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politic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels.
a politic decision.
a politic manager.
a politic old scoundrel.
a shrewd and politic reply.
Examples of politic
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Obama, they say, doesn't want to proclaim his policies over a rapt body politic.
From the theatlantic.com
The tragedy of the Rand Paul fiasco is that it opens a scar in the body politic.
From the forbes.com
Even future American governments may find it more politic, and useful, to do so.
From the economist.com
Across America, the body politic is busily making mountains out of droll hills.
From the time.com
It was a wound on the body politic, the defining failure of a series of mayors.
From the time.com
Each picks at a scab on the body politic that was in danger of beginning to heal.
From the theatlantic.com
What relevance has the quest for mental health inside Europe's sick body politic?
From the independent.co.uk
This malevolant little gnome is a malignant growth on the body politic of Russia.
From the economist.com
It's going to take more than real politic to change the opinions of these guys.
From the economist.com
The Palestinians were politic enough to do the same, if a little circumspectly.
From the time.com
I should have realized that giving such thanks was simply the politic thing to do.
From the post-gazette.com
Conservative or Liberal, aren't we, the body politic, the true victims of perfidy?
From the publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com
Any individual, partnership or body politic could purchase up to 1,000 shares.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Similar legal terms include heir apparent, court martial, body politic, and so on.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He was making a religio-politic statement as much as he was an English translation.
From the guardian.co.uk
It may just be that the phenomenon of sexual encounter depends on a sexual politic.
From the time.com
Even if they're just being polite, or politic, the four are impressive nonetheless.
From the boston.com
I found overwhelming that something is very wrong with the American church politic.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"
- Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
- Politics (from Greek: u03C0u03BFu03BBu03B9u03C4u03B9u03BAu03CCu03C2 politikos, definition "of, for, or relating to citizens") is the process of making uniform decisions applying to all members of a group. It also involves the use of power by one person to affect the behavior of another person...
- The Politic: The Yale College Journal of Politics is a bi-monthly Yale University student publication that traces its roots to 1947, when the Yale Political Journal: A Magazine of Student Opinion was founded. ...
- Polites is the name of two characters in Greek mythology of the Trojan War, and a genus of butterflies.
- (Polites (butterfly)) The Polites is genus of North American butterfly of the Hesperiidae family (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers).
- Shrewd, prudent and expedient; Discreet and diplomatic; Artful, crafty or cunning
- (POLITES) (Uotrns 1. A son of Priam and Hecabe, and father of Priam the younger, was a valiant warrior, but was slain by Pyrrhus. (Horn. IL ii. 791, xiii. 533, xxiv. 250 ; Virg. Aen. ii. 526, v. 564.)
- Polites was a son of Priam and Hecabe. He was killed before them by Neoptolemus.
