injudicious

[ in-joo-dish-uhs ]
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adjective
  1. not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.

Origin of injudicious

1
First recorded in 1640–50; in-3 + judicious

Other words from injudicious

  • in·ju·di·cious·ly, adverb
  • in·ju·di·cious·ness, noun

Words Nearby injudicious

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How to use injudicious in a sentence

  • The business world provides us with numerous examples of beliefs that are as widespread as they are injudicious, or misinformed.

    Ignorant America | Tunku Varadarajan | August 30, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Lynn saw that his remark was injudicious, and endeavoured to atone for it, by the most delicate assiduity of attention.

    Alone | Marion Harland
  • To soil either would be injudicious, impolitic, and she never desired the injudicious and impolitic.

    The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • And for this they would have had to thank their injudicious champions in both Houses of Parliament.

  • She was no private character; it was, therefore, an injudicious resistance of his authority.

  • This injudicious speech was duly reported to the marquis, who, stung to the quick, quitted the lady for ever.

    Queens of the French Stage | H. Noel Williams

British Dictionary definitions for injudicious

injudicious

/ (ˌɪndʒʊˈdɪʃəs) /


adjective
  1. not discreet; imprudent

Derived forms of injudicious

  • injudiciously, adverb
  • injudiciousness, noun

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