How to Use unwise in a Sentence

unwise

adjective

• It would be unwise to buy a house now.
• But the schools and NCAA would be unwise to keep that money.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• But Cao thinks the move is unwise and goes to the other extreme.
  — Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science | AAAS, 27 Feb. 2020
• Attempting to time the ups and downs in the stock market is unwise.
  — Mark Zandi, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
• Many of his fouls are still unwise, even in that context.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Betting against him winning an MVP in the 2020s would not be unwise.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• Which makes this fight with the Freedom Caucus even more unwise.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 31 Mar. 2017
• Who’s good and bad, and who’s good but unlucky or unwise, is always clear.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• For Kerr and Popovich, rising caseload numbers across the country made the prospect of a dinner out unwise.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• But his final thought that China in distress might be helped by the U.S. is unwise.
  — WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
• But Clarence Thomas has shown in his time on the Court that reflexive deference to them is unwise.
  — Adam J. MacLeod, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
• But building a contender around those tenets may prove unwise.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• One of the replacement players made the unwise decision to snap pictures of the scene out the window.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• The only things standing in the way are unwise public policies.
  — Marie Fishpaw, National Review, 1 Aug. 2019
• Jenkins added that the spot is also an unwise campaign move.
  — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2022
• Dallas was undisciplined in the first and the Lightning took unwise penalties in the second.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
• After chasing the ball, Acevedo made the unwise decision to rush a throw to first base with the speedy Friedl running.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2023
• On an off day in Colorado, the ace pitcher made the unwise decision to ride dirt bikes in the hills outside of Denver.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• For some scholars who study civil-military affairs, the use of the Marines as backdrop to the speech was unwise.
  — Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2022
• So there could be a silver lining to the Supreme Court’s unwise decision.
  — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• Doubling down on policies that have not succeeded in the past would be unwise.
  — Colin Grabow, National Review, 15 Sep. 2022
• Last night in Wembley’s pouring rain, Gilmour showed why such a move might be unwise.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 19 June 2021
• Owners brought replacement players to spring training in 1995 in an unwise move to break the union.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2022
• Using your time here wisely is never an unwise thing to do.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2024
• There once was a time when broadcasting the decision to quit a job might have seemed unwise, or at least uncouth.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• To many, the idea of using an armed naval convoy to enter Houthi waters near Hodeidah is unwise.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Paying $1,200 in cash would have been difficult, and putting the purchase on a credit card seemed unwise.
  — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• People like to know about the quirks of the individual who has gone – the jam-jar collection, the clashing clothes, the unwise taste for speed.
  — 1843, 21 May 2020
• There is still time to convince the commission to walk back this unwise decision and not reopen the fishery this December.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• Washington would be unwise to test the theory that China is a paper tiger that would back down in the face of concerted American action.
  — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024