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injudicious
adjective
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Injudicious

Injudicious \In`ju*di"cious\, a. [Pref. in- not + judicious; cf. F. injudicieux.]

  1. Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser.

    An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory.
    --A. Murphy.

  2. Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as, an injudicious measure.

    Syn: Indiscreet; inconsiderate; undiscerning; incautious; unwise; rash; hasty; imprudent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
injudicious

1640s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + judicious. Related: Injudiciously.

Wiktionary
injudicious

a. Showing poor judgement; not well judged.

WordNet
injudicious

adj. lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"

Usage examples of "injudicious".

One of the most glaring instances of injudicious restoration is to be met with in the apsidal chapel attached to the eastern side of the south transept.

Tom Ryfe, notwithstanding his capabilities, was a fool, like most others, where his feelings were touched, and proved it by the injudicious means he used to attain the end he so desired.

Nothing, it should seem, could weaken the force or destroy the effect of so unanswerable a justification, unless it were the injudicious conduct of the apologists themselves, who betrayed the common cause of religion, to gratify their devout hatred to the domestic enemies of the church.

These figures are for arable land and do not include the general erosion and degradation of lands all over the earth from human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, fire, and other injudicious human occupancy.

I know of no style of singing so unnatural as a perpetual tremolando brought on by injudicious training and the ignorance of the art of breathing correctly.

Everyone had heard tales of people roaming the subterranean world who had taken injudicious turns and found themselves irretrievably lost in mazes built in ancient days to delude possible invaders, bewilderingly intricate webworks of anarchic design whose outlets were essentially unfindable and from which the only escape was through starvation.

An injudicious person might have been inclined to smile at the sight of them side by side, but as with all those who followed Halfvrin Nilsson it would have been a mistake to be seen doing it.

Invalids clinging to life, terrified of overexerting themselves, terrified of a breath of drafty air, of a stray germ, of an injudicious meal.

This seems injudicious in the extreme, potentially, though Mario, like Lyle, tends to take data pretty much as it comes.

James Incandenza was one of those profound-personality-change drinkers who seemed quiet and centered and almost affectless when he was sober but would move way out to one side or the other of the human emotional spectrum, when drunk, and seem to open up in a way that was almost injudicious.

The worthy cardinal was doubtless guilty of a very great indiscretion, but self-love is the cause of so many injudicious steps!

If it were possible to rely on the partial testimony of an injudicious writer, we might ascribe the abdication of Diocletian to the menaces of Galerius, and relate the particulars of a private conversation between the two princes, in which the former discovered as much pusillanimity as the latter displayed ingratitude and arrogance.

His crippled mid-limb and twisted pelvis continued to stab him with pain at any injudicious movement, yet he radiated a sense of complacency as he contemplated the change in their circumstances.

The physician and surgeon, neither of whom he would dismiss, nor suffer to leave the village, proceeded upon contrary principles, and the good effect of what the one prescribed, was frequently counteracted by the injudicious treatment of the other.

This new and injudicious violation of the constitution was probably dictated either by the ignorance of his Syrian courtiers, or the fierce disdain of his military followers.