Adjective: politic pó-li-tik
- Marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
"a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"
- Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
"he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage";
- smooth, suave, bland
Sounds like: police, peolitic, po
See also: diplomatic, diplomatical, expedient, sagacious
Antonym: impolitic
Encyclopedia: Politic, Dennis