How to Use ill-advised in a Sentence

ill-advised

adjective
  • There have been many points on that path that were truly ill-advised.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The initial entry of Lidl into the U.S. market was ill-advised.
    Walter Loeb, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • While Nix’s throw was ill-advised, the protection wasn’t great, either.
    Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
  • While splurging on trends may be ill-advised, splurging on a classic suit that never goes out of style makes sense.
    Maya Polton Updated, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Towns scored 62 points, but put forth one of his worst defensive efforts of the season and took some ill-advised — to put it mildly — shots in the second half.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This also makes right turns from northbound Lee Road onto eastbound Cedar Road ill-advised at that pinch point.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • To guide Sticks in the right direction, Leo makes some (foolish and increasingly ill-advised) moves.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But more recently, his bearish stance has proven ill-advised.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • Other segments feature a woman being stalked by telephone and a nurse whose decision to steal a ring from a corpse turns out to be very ill-advised.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, for those with gluten intolerance or a gluten allergy, eating a flour tortilla is either ill-advised or out of the question.
    Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • While my Costco ones are remarkably soft and absorbent for the price, splurging for one of our favorite luxury brands like Weezie or Hillhouse Home will never be ill-advised.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Although buying high on a team that has surpassed this total in five straight games feels slightly ill-advised, the fact is Ottawa is facing a Blackhawks team that has let in goals left-and-right against some pretty weak teams lately.
    Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But Joshua Glick, a visiting professor of film and electronic arts at Bard University, believes such a move would be ill-advised.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 4 May 2023
  • The secretary of state had quit in protest of President Carter’s decision to launch a military rescue effort in Iran, which Vance considered ill-advised.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • The secretary of state had quit in protest of President Carter's decision to launch a military rescue effort in Iran, which Vance considered ill-advised.
    Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • Driving through extreme weather is especially ill-advised and can, of course, be treacherous.
    Joe Difazio, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Over the weekend, social media platforms were flooded with sightings of Vision Pro users out in the wild, oftentimes in odd, unusual, and downright ill-advised situations.
    Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Progestin-only pills, sometimes called mini-pills, have very few contraindications, meaning there are few medical circumstances when taking them would be ill-advised.
    Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • Also cringingly funny is the story of his drunken and ill-advised belligerence toward a public safety officer at an Australian train station.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2023
  • Years of colonization and violence have understandably prompted many to view missionary work as ill-advised at best and fundamentally evil at worst.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 July 2024
  • Pandemic Pinnacles took advantage of the two-for-one accrual rate of Pinnacle points during the pandemic, when sailing on a cruise ship was even more ill-advised, to catapult themselves into Pinnacle status.
    Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The jail medical staff’s decision to return Serna to the jail’s general population was ill-advised, Montgomery concluded, and health care workers should have responded to the vomiting more effectively.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Some daredevil travelers have taken it as a challenge to experience these skyrocketing temperatures firsthand, despite how dangerous and ill-advised that may be.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • Holding free and fair elections in wartime is virtually impossible and also ill-advised, according to Ukrainian officials, election experts and democracy advocates.
    John Hudson, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • According to prosecutors, the defendants carried out medically unnecessary or ill-advised skin graft treatments to older patients at a billing rate of approximately $1 million per patient.
    Robert Legare, CBS News, 27 June 2024
  • When Boeing faced similarly protracted regulatory reviews before, some of Calhoun’s predecessors of were ill-advised to hide behind exceedingly vague, impersonal legalese in deference to regulators and investigators–which did not end well.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024

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