impolicy

British  

/ ɪmˈpɒlɪsɪ /

noun

1. the act or an instance of being unjudicious or impolitic

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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

Imprisonment for Debt, its impolicy and evil consequences in producing moral Crimes, 390, 394, &c.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

The President and Council of the Academy pointed out the impolicy of such proceedings, and indeed reprimanded Barry; but this, instead of checking, had the effect of increasing the violence of his abuse.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles

Trumbull and Schurz opposed the bill by speech and by vote, the former on the ground of unconstitutionality, the latter chiefly on the ground of impolicy, although he also considered it unconstitutional.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

"My dear Tony, there is a vulgar adage about the impolicy of quarrelling with one's bread-and-butter; but how far more reprehensible would it be to quarrel with the face of the man who cuts it?"

From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever