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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ill-advised
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.
Wiktionary
ill-advised

a. Carried out without the benefit of wise counsel or careful deliberation, or carried out with unwise counsel

WordNet
ill-advised

adj. without careful prior deliberation or counsel; "ill-advised efforts"; "it would be ill-advised to accept the offer"; "took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations"; "ill-advised efforts" [syn: unadvised] [ant: well-advised]

Usage examples of "ill-advised".

A group of enthusiastic and ill-advised jihadi soldiers had launched their own vengeful strike against the main Synchronized World of Corrin.

It would have been out of character for her to reveal too much more of herself in a graphic sex scene, given how much she has already exposed of her unreciprocated and ill-advised longings.

With him sitting up and the stereotaxic frame in place, it would be ill-advised to move him on and off a gurney.

Even this step was to Burns one of danger: some ill-advised person had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at his heels, and he was obliged to shelter himself as he best could, in woods, it is said, by day and in barns by night, till the final hour of his departure came.

His movements were lightning fast and that day I saw Jordan react with the speed of an Eastern diamondback when Skeeter made his ill-advised charge.

It was a ill-advised moment when I stopped there on my way back to the Humbolts from the Yavapai country.

We are afraid to say how many magnums were emptied on the occasion, but before the party broke up, which it did not do till a late hour, a general resolution was come to, that a more strenuous effort should be made on the morrow, to induce his majesty to forego his ill-advised journey to London, and instead of endangering his safety by such a senseless attempt, to set up his standard, and summon all his adherents to join him.

Even if the boats called off their ill-advised attack at this point, affront had already been given.

It was obvious in any case that Acrolace and Parn were not going to return in time to be of any help in dissuading Kellen Elessedil from his ill-advised foray.

He should have been able to devise a more effective approach to dissuading him from making an ill-advised attack.

Sully, who reports this fact in his Memoirs, does not throw the slightest doubt upon its exactness, and adds, that it was chiefly owing to the facility and ill-advised good-nature of his royal master that the bad example had so empoisoned the court, the city, and the whole country.

Many went so far as to risk ill-advised hops across several of the moving walkways rather than be carried in near proximity past the team.

It was an execrable and ill-advised combination of several teas, dominated by Orange Pekoe, that somehow managed to cancel each other's aromas.

It was an execrable and ill-advised combination of several teas, dominated by Orange Pekoe, that somehow managed to can­.