How To Use Ill-advised In A Sentence
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In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
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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
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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.
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Yet we would be ill-advised to dismiss any of them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
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Weiner compounded his predicament by calling a cable TV producer a jackass, reeling off a string of ill-advised, double-entendre wiener jokes and essentially reducing what he calls a "prank" to
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Nyjer Morgan led off the inning with a bunt single which was actually misplayed by Capuano, who made an ill-advised attempt to swipe at Morgan with his glove, rather than make the safer play and throw to first, but Morgan was wiped out on a double play grounder from Ian Desmond.
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| Reply | Permalink couldn't agree more, swarty ... some ill-advised stuff, for sure. they're back on topic now, thanks to edwards, who's playing quite the peace-maker role tonight ...
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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.
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I once attempted a sex scene in a brief and ill-advised foray into fiction.
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They were no doubt too busy but ill-advised as to the proper significance of such a distinguished visitor.
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For some, 2002 was an unforgiving year when carefully cultivated images were destroyed by a single ill-advised moment.
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How do you prove that a person has acted in a particular way because of another's race, gender or whatever, unless the perpetrator has been ill-advised enough to say so?
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Unlike with ill-advised conversations-where you can later swear that you said "dollop," not "trollop" and this was a simple misunderstanding based on excessive cerumen build-up-everything is spelled out in black-and-white in e-mail messages.
Macworld
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The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the start.
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What terrifies me is that I don't see a great deal of difference in the general ill-advisedness of having either Sarah Palin or Mary Carey as a leader, aside from the fact that Carey ran as a joke and Palin might actually believe she's qualified.
Gram Ponante: Porn Valley Observed
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The shows are a real pot luck option, oscillating between greatest hits group shows and ill-advised solo outings.
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This is delicate but to be encouraged (though Americans would be ill-advised to go anywhere near such a program with aid dollars).
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Pussycat Club Ibiza Reunion Party, BrightonAs the fabled White Isle prepares to wind down the beach brolly on another season, it's time to fondly reminisce over backs painfully sunburnt after an afternoon's topless scootering and credit cards maxed out after that ill-advised round of drinks with your new bezzie mates.
Clubs picks of the week
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The bank claims that the company's losses are the result of an ill-advised decision to declare bankruptcy.
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I suspect they privately think his comments were ill-advised but were loath to lose a second top Senate leader over casual remarks in the space of six months.
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One ill-advised, briefcase-swinging charge at a tormentor had earned me forever the nickname Ferdinand the Bull, soon shortened to Ferd the Nerd.
LIGHT FINGERS
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This is not an ill-advised comment on an internet forum.
The Sun
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The 1884 slugfest also serves as a reminder that a single ill-advised sentence from a warm-up speaker or a campaign surrogate can easily explode into a full-scale flap when time and partisan tempers are short.
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And given Senator Clinton's ill-advised speech Tuesday night, I don't think any Clinton supporter should be talking about "graceless" behavior.
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He laid a board-rattling bodycheck, absorbed a couple of hits, took an ill-advised holding penalty and didn't score in a 2-1 loss to a Mississauga Rebels team with a few OHL prospects of its own.
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One of their mutts ill-advisedly chased the deviant, and by the time the owner caught up, the man had engaged the pet in some hot heritage dry moating.
The Register
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The cutesy, mincing vocals are dotted with ill-advised wailing and occasional outright mimicry of dudes like Beck.
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The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates.
Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
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Immediately after having applied such shameful language to a man respectable compared with himself, he considers him as an irrefragable witness, because Boindin — whose unhappy temper was well known — left an ill-written and exceedingly ill-advised memorial, in which he accuses La Motte — one of the worthiest men in the world, a geometrician, and an ironmonger — with having written the infamous verses for which
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Any gentleman who would bag himself a Snake lady would be ill-advised to seem too available.
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Consider her demeanour when she emerged from the courtroom after hearing her guilty verdict wearing that ill-advised dyed chinchilla scarf.
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It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment, and in believing it to undermine the opt-out.
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Even if the Flash intro does convey useful information, this is still ill-advised, which allows me to segue nicely to my next point.
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We should all hope that Sir John does not give in to this ill-advised bullying.
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As America and China square up, the chancellor is ignoring the bigger picture with his ill-advised spending review
History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
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The dirtside consequences of interference should be enough to prevent ill-advised actions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Buzz Aldrin on the Need for Private Property Rights in Space:
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Kids and significant others, you've created this monster with years of indulgement and ill-advised
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You would be ill-advised to travel on your own.
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It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment, and in believing it to undermine the opt-out.
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This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic.
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Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
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It's sort of the same thing, except that it's slightly more difficult to claim 50 per cent of the royalties from an ill-advised mid-life crisis bunk-up with a teenager than from a catchy middle of the road doo-wop pastiche.
Christie Brinkley Divorces Billionth Husband
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I sat by Spotted Tail, exchanging civilities in my newly-acquired Siouxan-Wootton had never named me to him, evidently, and I was ill-advised enough to tell him my Apache handle of Wind Breaker, which he said solemnly was a brave and creditable one.
Isabelle
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This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic.
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Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.
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ill-advised efforts
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If Ellis abandons his ill-advised notion of taking advice from the industry and hews to the sentiments he has expressed in the past, he'd be off to a fast start.
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Rudd's extravagant claim was made in the uncomplicated environs of home turf but was equally ill-advised.
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Britpop, on the other hand, isn't just dead but a festering zombie corpse, its ribcage dangling out of its chest, unmercifully massacring every Quadrophenia revivalist and ill-advised brass section left parping in its wake.
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Lord knows how many ill-advised purchases will be made in the heat of the moment, and not always by people who can afford them.
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A critic in the Guardian called the novel "an ill-advised, debatably insensitive" project; a BBC commentator argued that a such a sensational subject was beneath a literary novelist.
The Ex-Princess Diaries
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But if the pressure weakens, out of an ill-advised effort to placate Moscow, Putin and his Kievan friends will be able to consummate their coup d'etat.
BIG BROTHER AND 'LITTLE RUSSIANS'
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After the clergywoman grilled the couple about their relationship, she wrote to them and said she thought marriage would be 'ill-advised'.
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Skip was a buoyant 72-year-old Rhode Islander hampered for the time being by a cast protecting a broken ankle suffered when his self assurance over-reached his nimbleness in an ill-advised leap onto a rock at the beach.
Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
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“Thou art ill-advised, thou malapert boy,” replied the steward, “to speak to me in such fashion; but I shall inform my Lady of thine insolence.”
The Abbot
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Mr. Guccione also made a series of ill-advised investments, including a failed $18 million movie production of an X-rated adaptation of "Caligula," and $45 million in delinquent taxes, which contributed to his empire's downfall.
Penthouse founder Bob Guccione dies at 79
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The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision.
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It may well be true that he was ill-advised to think aloud as he did.
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it would be ill-advised to accept the offer
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James Fellows: That a man who himself served in an ill-advised war should now lose a son to a war the father tried to prevent is almost too painful to contemplate.
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Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour.
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Any ill-advised surfer who turns a 9-or 10-foot longboard broadside into the tumble of a small wave knows the incredible power of moving water.
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We are ill-advised to adopt or adhere to constitutional rules that bring us into constant conflict with a coequal branch of government.
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In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
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Ill-advised additions had been made, according to the fashion of the times: a den paneled in rustic pine, a long screened porch, some dormers scattered above the horizontal roof line like eyes peering down the drive.
Excerpt: Blessings by Anna Quindlen
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Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
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If you can manage to avoid obsessing on the obvious sets and studio backlots, and the sometimes ill-advised camera maneuvers, and pay attention to the acting and writing, then you won't be disappointed.
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He made some ill-advised comments.
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Similarly, embalming, which replaces the blood with a preservative fluid, is ill-advised.
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The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates.
Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
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It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment, and in believing it to undermine the opt-out.
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Desperately unhappy, Huey recruits his best friend Aldo in an ill-advised scheme to patch things up with his ex-wife. The prospects for success seem unlikely.
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However, when purchasing cloves - and they're readily available in most supermarkets and food shops - you will be ill-advised to buy the ground variety.
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One doubts that any threat ecosystem will crash from an ill-advised project here and there.
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In particular the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic science, which explores the idea that human consciousness can affect the physical world, thereby providing (as we are reminded twice in the space of half a page) the
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