ill-conceived

How To Use ill-conceived In A Sentence

• History is littered with examples of ill-conceived attempts to keep the peace at any price. Times, Sunday Times
• Pister, an emeritus engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said "the rush to add automatic shutoff valves willy nilly is an ill-conceived response to this incident" because it could end up disrupting gas supplies and not improving safety. PG&E Safety Culture Faulted, Panel Probing Blast Finds
• The chaos of haphazard buildings and ill-conceived new arterial roads were already causing concern and we were often called in to advise on remedial planting. The Education of a Gardener
• That that effort, and the others mentioned above, were ill-conceived is true enough, but the reasons why are complex. A Coast Guard that guards everyone else’s coast « Antiwar.com Blog
• They equate ‘radical’ with high-risk, ill-conceived, and highly speculative projects.
• Poverty is man-made; it results from the greed and arrogance of power, poor governance and ill-conceived policies.
• He then churned the Estate account by selling perfectly reasonable shares to pay for this ill-conceived investment.
• Their motives are noble but their plan is ill-conceived.
• Channeled and rip-rapped, the creek bears similar scars from ill-conceived attempts at pruning.
• But that's merely the beginning of this ill-conceived, ill-timed and epically copy-cattish endeavor, from the cover - a clumsy, solipsistic shot of a woman in a WSJ paper dress (a strange and otherwise un-referenced homage to the 1960s) - to the head-scratching organizing principle of the TOC. Adam Hanft: I.O.A. -- The Wall Street Journal Magazine is Irrelevant On Arrival