ill-advised

How To Use ill-advised In A Sentence

• Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.
• “Thou art ill-advised, thou malapert boy,” replied the steward, “to speak to me in such fashion; but I shall inform my Lady of thine insolence.” The Abbot
• Skip was a buoyant 72-year-old Rhode Islander hampered for the time being by a cast protecting a broken ankle suffered when his self assurance over-reached his nimbleness in an ill-advised leap onto a rock at the beach. Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
• After the clergywoman grilled the couple about their relationship, she wrote to them and said she thought marriage would be 'ill-advised'.
• But if the pressure weakens, out of an ill-advised effort to placate Moscow, Putin and his Kievan friends will be able to consummate their coup d'etat. BIG BROTHER AND 'LITTLE RUSSIANS'
• A critic in the Guardian called the novel "an ill-advised, debatably insensitive" project; a BBC commentator argued that a such a sensational subject was beneath a literary novelist. The Ex-Princess Diaries
• Lord knows how many ill-advised purchases will be made in the heat of the moment, and not always by people who can afford them. Times, Sunday Times
• Britpop, on the other hand, isn't just dead but a festering zombie corpse, its ribcage dangling out of its chest, unmercifully massacring every Quadrophenia revivalist and ill-advised brass section left parping in its wake.
• Rudd's extravagant claim was made in the uncomplicated environs of home turf but was equally ill-advised.
• If Ellis abandons his ill-advised notion of taking advice from the industry and hews to the sentiments he has expressed in the past, he'd be off to a fast start.