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Archibald Maclaine, a crotchety, fifty-nine-year-old lawyer, planter, and Scots-Irish immigrant who represented the town of Wilmington, also spoke frequently and intelligently at the North Carolina ratifying convention, but often, like Robert R. Livingston in New York, “impolitically.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Archibald Maclaine, a crotchety, fifty-nine-year-old lawyer, planter, and Scots-Irish immigrant who represented the town of Wilmington, also spoke frequently and intelligently at the North Carolina ratifying convention, but often, like Robert R. Livingston in New York, “impolitically.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

There are tens of thousands of e-mails in that trove, a lot of people speaking unguardedly, unwisely and impolitically.

You shall know them by their work 2010

Archibald Maclaine, a crotchety, fifty-nine-year-old lawyer, planter, and Scots-Irish immigrant who represented the town of Wilmington, also spoke frequently and intelligently at the North Carolina ratifying convention, but often, like Robert R. Livingston in New York, “impolitically.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

In Ogletree's phrasing, the "acted stupidly" remark "blackened" the President, impolitically demonstrating to Americans that he, too, could be sensitive to the indignities suffered by a particular racial group.

Nathan Robinson: One Year Later, Does the Henry Louis Gates Arrest Mean Anything? Nathan Robinson 2010

Maybe it wasn't an act of asymmetrical warfare, after all, as Rear Adm. Harry Harris impolitically deemed it ...

Amy Ephron: Take Two at Night and Call Me In the Morning. Oh, I forgot, you can't use the phone... 2008

He spoke haughtily of Charlie Chaplin as 'that ballet dancer,' testily of Walter Winchell as a 'little schmuck,' and impolitically of Mae West as a 'plumber's idea of Cleopatra.'

Milking an Elk Mazzocco, Robert 1995

Denmark had never been engaged in so arduous a contest, and never did the Danes more nobly display their national courage -- a courage not more unhappily than impolitically exerted in subserviency to the interests of France.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Empire for Aries and England, was duly summoned to the electoral diet, but his representatives impolitically urged the claims of Count Henry, who was ruled ineligible on account of his absence.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Must the representatives place the government under the necessity of acting unjustly and impolitically?

Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843