Crossword clues for politically
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
politically
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically/technically/politically etc feasible
▪ It was no longer financially feasible to keep the community centre open.
politically active
▪ As a student, he was politically active.
politically controversial
▪ The area of workers’ rights remains politically controversial.
politically correct
▪ politically correct textbooks
politically expedient
▪ This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.
politically incorrect
▪ politically incorrect jokes
politically/ideologically committed
▪ They were ideologically committed to democratic principles.
politically/socially inept
▪ Blake was intellectually able but politically inept.
politically/socially/environmentally etc aware
▪ the socially aware novels of Dickens
▪ We should promote environmentally aware and responsible science.
socially/economically/politically etc divisive
▪ socially divisive policies
socially/politically/environmentally etc conscious (=conscious of social/political etc issues)
▪ We have all become more environmentally conscious.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
▪ In some areas rate levels were already beyond the limits which were regarded as socially and politically acceptable.
▪ She always chose safe, politically acceptable topics for her films, she says.
▪ Technically sweet and politically acceptable, it avoids accusation of moral hypocrisy by using economic arguments to appeal to self interest.
▪ By contrast, solar cells are politically acceptable.
▪ The limitations of performance evaluation lead to a concern with visible and politically acceptable results.
active
▪ Mansur Rajih had been politically active for most of his adult life.
▪ How might you assess whether most college students are politically active?
▪ Okay, so I was looking for a politically active, fat, drunk kleptomaniac.
▪ My connection to a politically active national organization had strengthened my hand immeasurably.
▪ A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.
▪ Significantly, this elder bloc was far more politically active than any other age group.
▪ She calls on women to become politically active and not just accept their identities.
▪ Are older students more politically active?
astute
▪ Mrs Thatcher may feel it would be politically astute to take a lead in getting a convention under way.
▪ Caving into Jorge Mas Canosa was politically astute.
▪ Ever since, the Nez Perce have been one of the most politically astute tribes, successfully holding on to their cultural identity.
▪ Nevertheless, much discretion remains for departments to increase their power, and politically astute department heads become skillful at doing so.
▪ To stand up in Congress and speak against homeownership would have been as politically astute as to campaign against motherhood.
aware
▪ Individuals are power-oriented and politically aware.
▪ Both emerged from fertile local music scenes and were led by strong, politically aware black leaders.
▪ By the end of 1987 West Bank villagers were hardly less politically aware than their urban counterparts.
conscious
▪ The majority of the electorate are only marginally politically conscious, and the personalisation of political issues and allegiances reflect this marginality.
▪ It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
conservative
▪ Can John really have been so politically conservative?
▪ At the end of his life, Rustin turned politically conservative, alienating his friends and longtime union colleagues.
▪ While it was not axiomatic that the professional institutions were politically conservative, they were almost always culturally so.
correct
▪ At least screwing the Brits is politically correct, whichever way you do it!
▪ Franciscans oversaw construction of San Xavier del Bac during a time when mandatory religious conversion was considered politically correct.
▪ Revulsion at what has been happening there is not a prerogative of the politically correct.
▪ The proposition that men and women have evolved different minds is anathema to every social scientist and politically correct individual.
▪ I presumed it was politically correct.
▪ Sometimes they take the politically correct approach.
▪ Lewis was perfectly correct, even politically correct, to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first.
▪ So it's only politically correct and fair to write about an actor who's appearing on that other famous game show.
dangerous
▪ It is difficult to think of anything more politically dangerous or undemocratic.
▪ Turning them into corporate-style, for-profit enterprises could require layoffs and lead to widespread and politically dangerous labor unrest.
▪ In a month King was marching again, and this time he had Daley worried and in a politically dangerous bind.
difficult
▪ That writers' meeting in May 1986 was, happily, the last literary occasion that I found politically difficult.
▪ With neighborhoods split on the measure, the issue is politically difficult for other supervisors.
▪ There are special circumstances, there are politically difficult situations, appeals must be made.
▪ To impose new patterns of use at government level may, of course, be politically difficult.
expedient
▪ It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production.
▪ Aicha Kossoko exerts a brooding presence as Octavia, suffering nobly through her politically expedient marriage to the unloving Antony.
▪ There can be little doubt that any government would rapidly do so should it become politically expedient.
▪ Presumably, this is a politically expedient decision; but how long can this car dependence be sustained?
feasible
▪ Consequently, choices judged politically feasible are not always economically optimal.
▪ But the necessary co-ordination is not politically feasible without a clear crisis.
important
▪ The Greens are becoming politically important.
▪ Around here, the conventional wisdom is that the number and volume of charges are more politically important than subsequent facts.
▪ Britain had largely abandoned its trolleybuses before these advantages became politically important with the increase in environmental concern in the 1970s.
▪ Ending the crisis is considered to be politically important for both leaders.
▪ However, in the period leading up to the birth of nationalism, this small number of literates formed a politically important minority.
impossible
▪ The only alternative was to build up Western ground strength to match the Red Army, a politically impossible task.
incorrect
▪ Is a suntan just politically incorrect?
▪ The downside of cutting the Scouts a little slack is too politically incorrect to imagine.
▪ He has escaped lightly from other brushes with the law, and from politically incorrect condemnations of homosexuality, feminism and contraception.
▪ Another ruled that a grassy lawn was politically incorrect on the grounds that not all children have gardens.
▪ Nora says it is not her island, that the idea of land ownership is absurd, not to mention politically incorrect.
▪ And, whispers an politically incorrect imp, than the pre-colonial and post-independence eras as well.
inept
▪ The shadow budget was also politically inept, although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were.
influential
▪ Getting these automated systems to work will require cooperation of the politically influential postal unions.
▪ But it also is true that neither candidate came from a wealthy, politically influential family or a powerful political machine.
motivated
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ Initial reports suggested that he had been poisoned, with the implication that it was a politically motivated killing.
▪ Audience variation presents particular problems for the politically motivated comedian.
▪ In what was widely regarded as a politically motivated action Kitangan was arrested in January 1991 and charged with corruption.
neutral
▪ Since none of the available usages are politically neutral, I see no value in prescribing one over the others.
▪ But opera is politically neutral and the Khabarovsk opera house was vacant most of the time.
▪ It is also a politically neutral location which is vital with respect to some of the datasets it contains.
▪ Anything directed at rolling up narcotics distribution networks in the United States was politically neutral and therefore acceptable.
▪ One myth that prevails in advanced industrial societies, for example, is that technology is politically neutral.
▪ We need to be more sensitive to the messages underlying what are seen as politically neutral questions.
powerful
▪ The politically powerful Jan Pickard of Western Province was forced to resign through ill health.
▪ Rather than the survival of the helpful, we find the survival of the already entrenched or the politically powerful.
▪ Fewer than two dozen large, politically powerful companies control delivery of most of the news and information we receive.
▪ Westlands, and other Valley agribusiness interests, are politically powerful and large campaign contributors.
sensitive
▪ As with advocacy, this requires clarity of thought and an ability to think quickly, in a politically sensitive environment.
▪ State-owned enterprises are believed to face pressures to select profit-reducing choices where, for example, price rises are politically sensitive.
▪ The Senate move was part of a broader bipartisan agreement on how the politically sensitive investigation will proceed.
▪ One application for the X-ray destruction method could be in the politically sensitive area of destroying chemical weapons.
▪ What Clinton did with the veterans' budget illustrates the dilemma the White House faces with many politically sensitive constituencies.
▪ It may entail an obligation to obey certain of the more politically sensitive laws.
unacceptable
▪ It would be politically unacceptable to exempt Enterprise Zones from their restrictions.
▪ But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency.
▪ In 1990 the unpopularity of the poll tax made even that levy politically unacceptable.
▪ A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable.
▪ However, the view is widespread that the destruction of food is politically unacceptable.
unpopular
▪ Lastly, both programmes have almost universally been politically unpopular in the countries where they have been launched.
▪ But raising those rates is a very public -- and potentially very politically unpopular -- act.
▪ The difficulty in cutting government expenditure Cuts in government expenditure are politically unpopular.
▪ What is more, tax increases or cuts in government expenditure are politically unpopular.
▪ They are politically unpopular and discriminate against those with high borrowing commitments, such as those with large mortgages.
■ VERB
become
▪ But under what circumstances does it become politically separatist?
▪ Many have become politically active for the first time, spurred on by events and experiences-some of them wrenching7during their undergraduate years.
▪ But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time, he was as yet of only limited importance.
▪ The Greens are becoming politically important.
▪ She calls on women to become politically active and not just accept their identities.
▪ On the contrary, it is becoming politically more savvy and more persuasive all the time.
▪ For me, that's where the cold, intolerant reductionism of Richard Dawkins and Lewis Wolpert becomes politically lethal.
▪ The process by which a individual becomes politically socialized is a complex one.
charge
▪ An important feature of this research is that it is carried out in a politically charged atmosphere.
▪ But with 3.8 million people unemployed and violence against foreigners on the rise, immigration remains a politically charged issue here.
commit
▪ Third, bureaucrats are expected to be politically committed rather than neutral as in the West.
connect
▪ Washington the landmark is mostly white, affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town.
▪ They like to laugh and were very politically connected in terms of knowledge.
▪ So is Dennis Natali, the politically connected defense lawyer murdered gangland-style in 1996.
inspire
▪ Bykov denies wrong doing and says the forthcoming trial is politically inspired.
▪ Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
motivate
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it's politically motivated.
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ Thirdly, the censorship was arguably politically motivated.
▪ Jones was politically motivated to embarrass him.
▪ Councils are going back to being politically motivated and this is not a good thing.
▪ This system favors the politically motivated.
remain
▪ Yet competition - professionally desirable - remained politically taboo.
▪ More usually formal committees have remained politically representative, with the main focus of organized party activity being reflected in party groups.
▪ Equally, a particular type of catholic identity may not belong to all but remains politically dominant for similar reasons.
▪ But if they are physically weak, the old guard remain politically strong.
▪ This is a damaging epidemic which remains politically invisible but socially evident.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate
▪ Ninety per cent of the population is kept politically illiterate, and the government takes orders from the corporations.
politically/economically/financially etc motivated
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated.
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ Yet because they are politically motivated they may be, in some degree, distrusted.
politically/religiously etc inspired
▪ Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
▪ Bykov denies wrong doing and says the forthcoming trial is politically inspired.
▪ Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Larkin's decision is widely believed to be politically motivated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.
▪ Ending the crisis is considered to be politically important for both leaders.
▪ It has reduced us politically to serfdom.
▪ Many are women, who have shown themselves more politically volatile than men.
▪ The Conservative lead increased by 50 percent amongst politically uncommitted Sun/Star readers but not at all amongst politically uncommitted Mirror readers.
▪ These are men whose aim is less to scupper the peace process than to exist politically within it.
▪ They are appointed by foreign governments, and once appointed, politically unaccountable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Politically
Politically \Po*lit"i*cal*ly\, adv.
In a political manner.
Politicly; artfully. [Obs.]
--Knolles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
politically
adv. 1 in a political manner 2 regarding politics, in a way connected to politics
WordNet
politically
adv. with regard to social relationships involving authority; "politically correct clothing"
with regard to government; "politically organized units"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "politically".
When acting in that capacity, they have taken an oath to be politically blind to the identity, party affiliation, and ideology of the litigant-candidates whose case is before them.
Great Red Spot, politically known as the Nation of Redspot, was anticyclonic, spinning counterclockwise, too, and enduring eternally despite the hunger of the bands.
Director Paul Barras was considered the most powerful of the five, and hence the most politically powerful man in the French Republic.
Abernathy, the Blesser of the Nonaligned States, to the south, who leaned on Lanacan as they made their way across the icy path, was older and frailer than his friend, but more politically powerful.
You see no narrowing of your freedom in whatever the requirements may be for a politically independent Alpha Crucis region, any more than you see a narrowing of it in laws against murder or robbery.
Englishmen held to the view of Americans as uncouth obstreperous trouble-makers, regardless of the example in their midst, among others, of Benjamin Franklin, as variously talented and politically sophisticated as anyone in Europe, and thoroughly dedicated to the goal of reconciliation.
Politically and militarily things are certainly going their way, thanks in no small measure to some incredibly stupid moves by us -- such as no-win war policies, gigantic loans and food shipments -- allowing them both to feed their people and to outspend us on defense.
Shortly before the licence-renewal hearing he was offered a passport, hard currency and a smooth ride through life- here or in the west-if he would separate from two of the most politically outspoken band members, Pannach and Kunert.
The fighting proletariat of the Communists became in such a pluralistic State also a politically neutral trade union or party.
It is his shibboleth that he is politically equal to the best, that he is independent, and that his labor, though it earn him but a dollar a day by porterage, places him as a citizen on an equal rank with the most wealthy fellow-man that may employ or accost him.
If that was the case, the city of Praunce itself would probably be a major center economically as well as politically, and would attract people from all over the continent.
We are aesthetically and emotionally drawn to primitivism, but not economically or politically.
A politically savvy cynic could wonder if a more restrictive regime was gaining a foothold on Earth, taking advantage of the Restorationist scandal.
For while a small, and, politically speaking, uninfluential, party are prepared to make every sacrifice and run all risks in order to blot out slavery on the instant, the influential and acting leaders of the majority, whatever their occasional language of denunciation, and affectation of horror, are not disposed to brave the rebellion of the South, and the possible disruption of the Republic, for the sake of shortening the thraldom of the negro some fifty years.
The attitude seemed to be that the book was unliberated or politically regressive because of that.