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
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
It has been thought strange, but there ARE nations in which the numerous unwiser part wishes to be ruled by the less numerous wiser part.
From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter
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
He grows the unwiser by other men's harms, for the worse others write, he finds the more encouragement to do so too.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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