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politic

/pol-i-tik/US // ˈpɒl ɪ tɪk //UK // (ˈpɒlɪtɪk) //

政治学,政治,政客,政治家

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
    • : contrived in a shrewd and practical way; expedient: a politic reply.
    • : political: the body politic.

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Examples

  • Pelosi, for her part, flatly denies that politics has anything to do with her negotiating tactics.

  • This time, politics podcast host and producer Galen Druke asks if this could be the year Democrats win Texas for the first time since 1976.

  • It is, Smith argues, a folk concept, combining politics with essentialist folk biology.

  • The same thing is true in politics, and I’ve always evaluated my workplace not by what they say but by who is doing the most talking.

  • Facebook’s newly announced rules only apply to new ads about “social issues, elections or politics.”

  • As Reagan injected the toxicity of racial division into the American body politic, Jackson spoke about “coming up together”.

  • Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.

  • A divisive selfishness had emerged in the late 1960s that had begun to dominate the body politic.

  • Our nation may have healed, but there are still exposed nerves that, when touched, cause trauma to the body politic.

  • Government activism on behalf of the common man was an unforgivable sin to be extirpated from the body politic.

  • He had tried to soften his reply, but not being politic or tactful had succeeded only in expressing himself more brusquely.

  • He was a politic monarch, the patron of men of letters, and an excellent author himself.

  • The more politic plan was therefore adopted of enlisting the people themselves in the cause as much as might be.

  • Her politic sovereigns soon found this a losing game, and offered large bounties for the importation of artists and machinery.

  • There was, however, a large party in Spain which regarded the designs of the French king with an enlightened and politic alarm.