impolicy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 ● Jul. 8, 2015
From the same volume we learn the impolicy of creating spiritual superiors.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.
Yet the permission given to individuals, hostile to both, to make laws for either, was the second triumph at which Irish action aimed, and which English impolicy finally conceded.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
Its policy or impolicy was a question to be decided by France.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
Had I objected to you, I should have pointed out to Mr. Hunter the impolicy of your coming.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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