unwiser
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unwiser
First recorded in 1640–50; unwis(e) ( def. ) + -er 4 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Seldom has a man made an unwiser public display of pedantry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.—Carlyle.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.
As it turned out, I never did an unwiser thing; but I had no means of knowing how unwise it was, and I was affected by her tears and protestations.
From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie
No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go; but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for money—Windsor Georges and such like!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and suchlike?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
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