as in inappropriate
showing poor judgment especially in personal relationships or social situations
an ill-advised criticism of the boss at a company function
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Recent Examples of ill-advised
Executives at Paramount look at the hundreds of millions the company spends on Nielsen measurement each year, according to one of the people familiar with the situation, and feel that paying a higher fee seems ill-advised and not in the company’s best interest.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Your husband’s cousin is trying hard to deal with her grief, however ill-advised her method may be.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
While Nix’s throw was ill-advised, the protection wasn’t great, either.
—Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
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
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Your husband’s cousin is trying hard to deal with her grief, however ill-advised her method may be.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
While Nix’s throw was ill-advised, the protection wasn’t great, either.
—Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-advised
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The defense also highlighted that specific allegations about inappropriate touching weren’t made until late November 2019 during the investigation.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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He was later caught sending inappropriate photos to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina and eventually sentenced to around a year and a half behind bars for the incident.Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024
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Notably, the inspector general's review said there was no evidence that the investigations were influenced by politics or other improper considerations.Robert Legare, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024
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The final ingredient of the DOGE cocktail is the potential improper conduct of the entity itself.Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Anything more than that may be financially imprudent.Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Adding a fourth option at the position may well be deemed imprudent given the club’s finances.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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Doing it with a wideout whose next NFL catch will be his first is doubly inadvisable.Brandon Funston, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
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As a bonus, the waxed rope bracelet looks great on men and women and is suitably lowkey for travelers who frequent destinations where flashy jewelry is inadvisable.Jessica Macdonald, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023
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So maybe use the feelings aroused by your sister-in-law’s thoughtless, certainly injudicious, possibly naughty remark as an opportunity to rise above.James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024
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What The Meng Episode Means (1): Is Huawei A Tool of The CCP? Meng’s release, and injudicious remarks, do not bode well for Huawei.George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
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For the people stupid enough to have trusted a midwit career bureaucrat as unscrupulous as President Joe Biden, there’s a sixth stage just before acceptance: delusion.Becket Adams, National Review, 8 Dec. 2024
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin Issa Rae on the belief that gets her through 'stupid mistakes and bad decisions' Lithgow: More.Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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Arizona’s desert may seem like an unwise location for a water-intensive industry.Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Using your time here wisely is never an unwise thing to do.Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
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Their rounded faces, their piercings and makeup, their lateness and absences and profuse, careless apologies—their vulnerability was almost intolerable.Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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Michigan fire statistics The leading cause of fire deaths in 2024 through early December are careless smoking (46%), followed by heating (16%) and explosion (16%), a report by Michigan Fire Inspectors Society said.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Ill-advised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-advised. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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