politic

• (a) marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
  • it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels
  • a politic decision
  • a politic manager
  • a politic old scoundrel
  • a shrewd and politic reply
• (s) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
  • he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
  • the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
  smooth, suave, bland,

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