impolicy
Britishnoun
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“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
If Raymond had not yet actively persecuted his heretic subjects it was merely because of the impolicy, under constant threats of foreign aggression, of alienating so large a portion of the population on which he relied for support.
From Project Gutenberg
From the same volume we learn the impolicy of creating spiritual superiors.
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Once more, after so many proofs of its impolicy, the Government of France attempts to suppress such political caricature as is not agreeable to it, while freely permitting the publication of pictures flagrantly indecent.
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If he was led sometimes to assume an attitude of antagonism to features of locomotive-construction which after-experience showed to be valuable,—and a desire for historical accuracy has required the mention, in previous pages, of several instances of this kind,—it is at least certain that his opposition was based upon a conscientious belief in the mechanical impolicy of the proposed changes.
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