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Lacking judgment
Answer for the clue "Lacking judgment ", 6 letters:
unwise
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished" not appropriate to the purpose [syn: inexpedient ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB very ▪ The hon. Gentleman's extraordinary attack on independent financial advisers was very unwise . ▪ His selection proved to be a very unwise decision. ▪ With the uncertainty caused by the break-up of the Soviet ...
Usage examples of unwise.
Yet because he had made himself a leader of the Progressionist Party, it was unwise to dismiss him publicly.
Fitch had found cause to be wary of the girl, and in view of that fact Ramonda thought it unwise to test her fortitude.
But retrenching and redefining would be tactically unwise, indicating confusion and lack of confidence.
It might be a spooked, unwise decision, with the sleet having turned to honest snow by the time they passed the shelter on the trail.
Both would be unwise: nature tolerates no stagnancy and punishes experiments with the impossible.
In the past it had seemed to the governing councils a profoundly unwise adventure, liable to attract the attention of the Hypotheticals, wasteful of resources, requiring acts of large-scale manufacturing that would dump unbudgeted volatiles into a meticulously managed and highly vulnerable biosphere.
She did not press the matter, reflecting that it might indeed be unwise, not to say foolhardy, to leave the choice of lodgings to his uninstructed judgment.
To show any emotion in the presence of the Atabeg was unwise, although groveling was acceptable after a certain point in the interview.
Chellis had been unwise in creating trusts to hold the stock of Grace Technologies, making his wife and Benoit trustees if he became incapacitated.
Half a bottle of Chambertin, a red mullet, or a pullet a la Marengo satisfy every need, but it is unwise to put pastry or cream upon the table, because he is as likely as not to eat it before the fowl.
Should any tradesman be so unwise as to name a price in golden coins, she pays him with hands from Ilighgarden, each half the weight of one of ourdragons.
I warned Elson it was unwise, that Celia might find out, but he badly wanted Abigail to see the island before he left forever.
Julius Apollo Filmer had been accused of conspiring to murder a stable lad who had been unwise enough to say loudly and drunkenly in a Newmarket pub that he knew things about Mr.
O thou Vengeful Power, I am forspent, if merit there can be In self accusing, in this darkest hour O hear me, and I pray thee pity me, For I have sinned, O fool, unwise and blind!
When Tane suggested that Mamak might have been unwise to curse Panazu, god of storms, the two men nearly came to blows.