politic
     adj 1: 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" [ant: {impolitic}]
     2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of
        sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so
        important a personage"; "the hostess averted a
        confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change
        of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a
        smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate
        men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra
        Pound [syn: {smooth}, {suave}]