unwiser

American  

[uhn-wahy-zer] / ʌnˈwaɪ zər /

adjective

1. Older Use. a rare comparative form of the adjective unwise.

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Etymology

Origin of unwiser

First recorded in 1640–50; unwis(e) ( def. ) + -er ⁴ ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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unwiser

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 Alexander F. Chamberlain

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

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 Thomas Carlyle

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 Walter Bagehot

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