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
He vindicated free trade, and showed the impolicy of the usury laws.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
"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 Lever, Charles James
Such was the force of public opinion, however, on the injustice and impolicy of such prosecutions, that Mr. Cleave was liberated, upon paying the fine, after five weeks' imprisonment.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Hetherington, Henry
The queen, convinced of the impolicy of emigration, did every thing in her power to induce the emigrants to return.
From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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