impolitic

Adjective

impolitic (comparative more impolitic, superlative most impolitic)

1. Not in accordance with good policy.
   • On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have been highly impolitic for my chief to have given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!1956 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 4
   • Even when it was impolitic to admire, let alone name, Evagrius, his descriptions of progress in the spiritual life could not be and were not ignored […].2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 210

   Synonyms:

   unwise, inexpedient, unadvisable