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ill-advised

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  1. without careful prior deliberation or counsel
    it would be ill-advised to accept the offer
    took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations
    ill-advised efforts

How To Use ill-advised In A Sentence

  • In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
  • Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • On the page and on the screen, "Kick-Ass" riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life. PaloAltoOnline.com
  • Yet we would be ill-advised to dismiss any of them.
  • But it certainly didn't feel like it at the time", referring to the unrequited loves, an ill-advised brief engagement and other romantic incidents that fill her diary when she was in her twenties. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • It goes without saying that shoppers who are ill-advised enough to carry them at all invariably have a purse or wallet bulging with them.
  • The postings on Facebook were ill-advised and to the best of our knowledge have all been removed - it is only others who are reposting these images.
  • Clear scientific evidence can be used to support either side of this chestnut-flavored debate, so appeals to the indisputability of one view or another are ill-advised. Balkinization
  • The other are a bunch of stadium-hogging egocentrics whose lead singer has almost bankrupt the band on two separate occasions due to ill-advised property investments.
  • There is little point in attempting anything practical: boiling a kettle on the living room floor is ill-advised with three pre-schoolers tugging at the flex.
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