ill-advised
adjective
acting or done without due consideration; imprudent.
ill-advisedly
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a word derived from
ill-advised.
Example Sentences
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That’s an understandable impulse—especially since Elon Musk has restored the accounts of scurrilous wrongdoers who’d previously broken Twitter rules, while other social media giants, like Facebook and Instagram, are ill-advisedly relaxing their content-moderation standards.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
Boehner quickly learned how to irritate his counterpart, after he ill-advisedly lectured the leader on what he thought was going on in his chamber.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023
But at its premiere in February, “Monochromatic Light” — ill-advisedly expanded for a grandiose staging at the Park Avenue Armory this fall — had a patience and invoked a history all its own.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Dakota Johnson plays Anne Elliot in an ill-advisedly “Fleabag” key in this flat-footed adaptation of one of Austen’s finest works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
I’d ill-advisedly bought new white sneakers to wear on the trip, and within a day, after all the pushing we did, they’d turned reddish brown, stained with the cinnamon-hued dust of Nairobi.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
