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ill-conceived
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ill-conceived
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an ill-conceived scheme
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?
▪ But with rapid population growth, all the negative effects of poverty and ill-conceived government policies are magnified.
▪ His critical approach to ill-conceived treatment and ill-considered research may be one side of a coin.
▪ Many have argued that the economic policy put in place in 1981 was, from the beginning, ill-conceived and wrong headed.
▪ On the cusp of restructuring family life, we cling ever more ardently to this antiquated and ill-conceived provider-homemaker design.
▪ What matters above all is for the consultation to be a genuine exercise in communication and not an ill-conceived charade.
▪ When it's ill-conceived, ill-considered or based on incomplete information, the Profitboss won't criticize the critic.
▪ Without the space, though, the rendering might be an ill-conceived pastiche.
Wiktionary
ill-conceived

a. Not properly planned or thought through.

WordNet
ill-conceived

adj. poorly conceived or thought out; "an ill-conceived plan to take over the company" [syn: misguided]

Usage examples of "ill-conceived".

In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba.

This amusingly ill-conceived adventure brings Bryson to the height of his comic powers, but his acute eye also observes an astonishing landscape of silent forests, sparkling lakes, and other national treasures that are often ignored or endangered.

A few handles and fittings bolted on from place to place do not make the Sten gun look any less like an ill-conceived high school metal shop project.

The raid was an ill-conceived plot to irritate the Overlord dreamed up by my sons and some hotheads from the other clans.