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What is "ill-considered"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ill-considered
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an ill-considered business venture
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite the mauling that Chris Patten and Co. are going to receive, they can force through this ill-considered legislation.
▪ Large corporations are rushing ahead with ill-considered techniques.
▪ There was never an ill-considered remark made about either of them.
▪ This is no argument to make ill-considered moves.
▪ This may arise as a consequence of an unsuccessful or ill-considered approach to a potential target.
▪ This, in the light of Omally's experience, was an ill-considered move upon his part.
▪ When costs are discounted or ignored, these organizations can bask in the short-term benefits that their ill-considered activities often afford.
▪ When it's ill-conceived, ill-considered or based on incomplete information, the Profitboss won't criticize the critic.
Wiktionary
ill-considered

a. Poorly considered.

WordNet
ill-considered

adj. not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt" [syn: ill-judged, improvident, shortsighted]

Usage examples of "ill-considered".

Earlier Belial had apologised to him for his ill-considered words about Azhure and they had grasped hands, friends once more.

Most coke freaks have already blown their memories by years of over-indulgence on marijuana, and by the time they get serious about coke they have a hard time remembering what day it is, much less what kind of ill-considered bets they might or might not have made yesterday.

The sperm-donated daughter was twelve when she took Eleanor Holt’s dildo—a battery-powered vibrator—to the Bridgehampton alternative middle school for that ill-considered part of American education known as Show and Tell.

If his father had intended this civilized meal and quiet moment as a bribe or a peace offering, it was ill-considered.

All this had been a weary, anxious task, and the contemplation of his hastily, partially re-read, almost certainly over-voluble and ill-considered series of letters bounding over the ocean wave (for the breeze was favourable) so wrung his weary spirit that for the first time in a great while he turned to his old friend and enemy laudanum, the alcoholic tincture of opium, and plunged into a sleep, guilty for the first few fathoms and then pure balm.