ILL-ADVISED


Meaning of ILL-ADVISED in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an ill-advised decision

In an ill-advised effort to improve matters, they sent him to boarding school.

The bank claims that the company's losses are the result of an ill-advised decision to declare bankruptcy.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the Police Complaints Authority says the officer's decision was premature and ill-advised .

Everyone is trying to cut spending at the moment, but this decision is ill-advised .

In the circumstances of 1921, Michael Joyce would have been ill-advised to seek reconciliation with the new order in Ireland.

It seemed to be regarded a little shyly, as though its language were faulty, or its reference to pleasure ill-advised .

One doubts that any threat ecosystem will crash from an ill-advised project here and there.

Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.

This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic.

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