How to Use undiplomatic in a Sentence

undiplomatic

adjective
  • Xue has been accused of undiplomatic conduct in the past.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Save the undiplomatic diplomats.
    — Max Boot, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2026
  • This inference was, at least, undiplomatic and, perhaps, reckless.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The two have had highly undiplomatic relations, hissing and swiping at each other.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Pashinyan also took a number of diplomatic—or, rather, undiplomatic—steps that galled Russia.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Instead of playing the role of professional diplomats, a growing number of them post undiplomatic comments there.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The in-your-face thing at the NATO headquarters was pretty undiplomatic.
    — Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler, New York Times, 27 May 2017
  • This undiplomatic tirade went over well in the White House, but marked him as a belligerent nativist abroad and something of an isolationist at home.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Throughout the talks this week, Russian diplomats tweeted undiplomatic messages seeking to intimidate, or perhaps to rile up the folks at home.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Yet as my research shows, Grenell’s intervention was also undiplomatic for another reason.
    — Geoffrey Gertz, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
  • Trump’s undiplomatic attack on May, his host, will likely raise the temperature around an already controversial visit.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • And soon, many in China’s Foreign Ministry were aping Zhao’s undiplomatic style of diplomacy.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • His language was undiplomatic and risked emboldening Russia, which by that point had already invaded both Georgia and Ukraine.
    — The Editors, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Earlier in the negotiations the German side tried to push matters in ways that were considered undiplomatic by Namibia.
    — Quartz Africa, 10 Aug. 2019
  • His cajoling, threats, and insults—however coarse and undiplomatic—did create a sense of urgency among European leaders that forced them to answer his concerns.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 2 July 2022
  • Philippine President Rodrigo Duerte has become known for his impressions, as well as his use of colorful and at times undiplomatic language.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2017
  • There are few more notorious hard-liners in Washington than Bolton, a 69-year-old former diplomat known for being profoundly undiplomatic.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In defending his undiplomatic language, Bolton told Senators that it had been cleared by relevant officials and that Hubbard had personally thanked him for it.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 23 Mar. 2018
  • His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have left world leaders scrambling to respond.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The Philippine government under the famously foul-mouthed Rodrigo Duterte has at times conducted its diplomacy with the most undiplomatic of language.
    — Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • Trump sent Erdogan a remarkably undiplomatic letter, first reported by Fox Business, cajoling and threatening the Turkish president.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Zelensky formally responded on Saturday in a decidedly undiplomatic post on X, subtly trashing the Polish government for revoking his award while not doing so with other historical awardees that many would object to.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • The hilarious — and realistic — scene in which Nella firmly but diplomatically confronts the white author’s stereotypical depiction of a young Black woman is unforgettable, as is his undiplomatic reaction.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021

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