impolitic

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The Word of the Day for July 7 is:

impolitic   \im-PAH-luh-tik\   adjective 
     : not politic : contrary to or lacking in policy : unwise, inexpedient 

Example sentence:
     It was highly impolitic of Mayor Washburn to recommend a mayoral pay 
increase shortly before he ran for reelection.

Did you know?
     "Impolitic" appeared over 400 years ago as an antonym of "politic," a word 
that basically means "shrewd,"
"sagacious," or "tactful." "Politic" came to us via Middle French from Latin 
"politicus." The Latin word, in turn, came from a Greek word based on 
"polites," meaning "citizen." "Impolitic" has often been used to refer to 
action or policy on the part of public figures that is considered politically 
unwise -- from British statesman Edmund Burke's judicious "the most ... 
impolitick of all things, unequal taxation" (1797) to a recent description (in 
_U.S. News & World Report_, June 20, 2005) of DNC Chairman Howard Dean's 
"impolitic dissing of the other side."