unwisest

[ uhn-wahy-zist ]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of unwisest¹

First recorded in 1670–80; unwis(e) ( def ) + -est ¹( def )

Example Sentences

See also what persons complain upon them, whether they be not of the basest, the unwisest, and the most faithless kind of people.

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The fact is this cleverness, after all, is merely egotism in its worst and unwisest phase.

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We surrender to the gaping traveller's mood, which surely isn't the unwisest the heart knows.

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Now you may always count upon this failing in a cautious man, that at a crisis he is like to do the unwisest thing that offers.

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If we hope to win in any contest, we must unite, but the unwisest thing we can do, is to unite and win.

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