How To Use imprudence In A Sentence
- It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
- Education and knowledge without hard work do not necessarily guarantee success, and imprudence, indiscipline and emotional impulsivity contribute to failure. Dr T.P.Chia
- I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
- When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
- When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
- This would be equivalent to the worst form of fiscal imprudence - getting rid of productive assets to meet daily subsistence needs.
- She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name. The Captive
- I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
- If that is called imprudence, I wonder what would be called a thoughtful provision against the vicissitudes of fortune. Fantastic Fables
- Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
