unwisest
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unwisest
First recorded in 1670–80; unwis(e) ( def. ) + -est 1 ( def. )
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But that would be the unwisest thing a guilty man could do.
From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green
A cunning little wretch, they say, and of deft tongue; but surely among the unwisest of all the Sons of Adam in that day, and such a Palinurus as seldom steered before.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
So my coming here this evening—this way—was altogether the bravest, scariest, unwisest, most-like-a-present-feeling-thing that I could possibly think of to do—for you.
From Molly Make-Believe by Walter Tittle
Nor can the unwisest "prescribed course of study" be considered quite useless, if it have incited you to try nobly on all sides for a course of your own.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
He did the unwisest thing he could possibly have done.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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