Definition: 1. With regard to social relationships involving authority. 2. With regard to government.
Use 'politically' in a sentence:
1. Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate.
2. I'm not going to defer decisions just because they are not immediately politically popular.
3. Such power is politically dangerous and morally objectionable.
4. The country was politically rudderless for almost three months.
5. Douglas held his tongue, preferring not to speak out on a politically sensitive issue.
6. It occurred to Tom to wonder whether Jane was quite trustworthy. Not that he thought she was in any way politically active.
7. But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.
8. I'm not very politically minded.
9. They do not believe the killings were politically motivated.
10. Even the most politically correct Germans believe that they're now earned the right to discuss the full historical record.
11. He finds himself politically enfeebled.
12. She was politically astute.
13. The groups that are the largest and most socially and politically complex, we call states.
14. Kerber maintained that the leaders of the new nation wanted women to be educated in order to raise politically virtuous sons.
15. America is the most intellectually, artistically and politically effervescent of nations.
16. The government has clearly decided that a cut in interest rates would be politically expedient.
17. Their view was that he had been politically naive.
18. They are politically very aware.
19. There are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw.
20. Thus, class may not be culturally and politically obvious, yet it remains an important part of British society.
21. Politically, I lean towards the right.
22. Politically speaking, do you think that these moves have been effective?
23. As they become entwined with each other politically and economically, Europeans need a way to talk to one another and to the rest of the world.
24. It makes sense politically as well as economically.
25. As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?
26. He started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.
27. School supervisor Doyle Disbrow acknowledges the district could have kept schools open by cutting programs but denies the moves were politically motivated.
28. The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically.
29. This sort of scandal in international banking has been politically costly.
30. The crime was not politically motivated.
31. The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.
32. He certainly was not politically inactive.
33. Gershwin's lyrics would today probably be deemed politically incorrect.
34. Max is a loose cannon politically.
35. A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.
36. Politically, this issue is a slam dunk for the party.
37. Further to your letter, I agree that there are some presentational problems, politically speaking.
38. Journalists are supposed to be politically neutral.
39. Health care is a politically sensitive issue.
40. Most newspapers are politically partisan.
41. They have been galvanised into collective action — militarily, politically and economically.
42. La Repubblica and El Pais are politically independent newspapers which share similar characteristics.
43. Governments frequently ignore human rights abuses in other countries if it is politically expedient to do so.
44. Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority.
45. They were both politically active.
46. The reforms will bring benefits, socially and politically.
47. It might not be safe politically for the President to leave the country.
