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'
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  • 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.
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  • Mr. Guccione also made a series of ill-advised investments, including a failed $18 million movie production of an X-rated adaptation of "Caligula," and $45 million in delinquent taxes, which contributed to his empire's downfall. Penthouse founder Bob Guccione dies at 79
  • This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic.
  • I sat by Spotted Tail, exchanging civilities in my newly-acquired Siouxan-Wootton had never named me to him, evidently, and I was ill-advised enough to tell him my Apache handle of Wind Breaker, which he said solemnly was a brave and creditable one. Isabelle
  • It's sort of the same thing, except that it's slightly more difficult to claim 50 per cent of the royalties from an ill-advised mid-life crisis bunk-up with a teenager than from a catchy middle of the road doo-wop pastiche. Christie Brinkley Divorces Billionth Husband
  • Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
  • This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic.
  • It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment, and in believing it to undermine the opt-out.
  • You would be ill-advised to travel on your own.
  • Kids and significant others, you've created this monster with years of indulgement and ill-advised Chicagotribune.com -
  • The dirtside consequences of interference should be enough to prevent ill-advised actions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Buzz Aldrin on the Need for Private Property Rights in Space:
  • Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
  • In particular the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic science, which explores the idea that human consciousness can affect the physical world, thereby providing (as we are reminded twice in the space of half a page) the TIME.com: Top Stories
  • One doubts that any threat ecosystem will crash from an ill-advised project here and there.
  • However, when purchasing cloves - and they're readily available in most supermarkets and food shops - you will be ill-advised to buy the ground variety.
  • Desperately unhappy, Huey recruits his best friend Aldo in an ill-advised scheme to patch things up with his ex-wife. The prospects for success seem unlikely.
  • It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment, and in believing it to undermine the opt-out.
  • The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
  • Similarly, embalming, which replaces the blood with a preservative fluid, is ill-advised.
  • He made some ill-advised comments. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you can manage to avoid obsessing on the obvious sets and studio backlots, and the sometimes ill-advised camera maneuvers, and pay attention to the acting and writing, then you won't be disappointed.
  • As America and China square up, the chancellor is ignoring the bigger picture with his ill-advised spending review History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
  • Ill-advised additions had been made, according to the fashion of the times: a den paneled in rustic pine, a long screened porch, some dormers scattered above the horizontal roof line like eyes peering down the drive. Excerpt: Blessings by Anna Quindlen
  • In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
  • We are ill-advised to adopt or adhere to constitutional rules that bring us into constant conflict with a coequal branch of government.
  • Any ill-advised surfer who turns a 9-or 10-foot longboard broadside into the tumble of a small wave knows the incredible power of moving water.
  • Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour.
  • James Fellows: That a man who himself served in an ill-advised war should now lose a son to a war the father tried to prevent is almost too painful to contemplate. Archive 2007-05-01
  • it would be ill-advised to accept the offer
  • It may well be true that he was ill-advised to think aloud as he did. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision.
  • In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
  • The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the start.
  • Unlike with ill-advised conversations-where you can later swear that you said "dollop," not "trollop" and this was a simple misunderstanding based on excessive cerumen build-up-everything is spelled out in black-and-white in e-mail messages. Macworld
  • How do you prove that a person has acted in a particular way because of another's race, gender or whatever, unless the perpetrator has been ill-advised enough to say so?
  • For some, 2002 was an unforgiving year when carefully cultivated images were destroyed by a single ill-advised moment.
  • They were no doubt too busy but ill-advised as to the proper significance of such a distinguished visitor.
  • I once attempted a sex scene in a brief and ill-advised foray into fiction.
  • It goes without saying that shoppers who are ill-advised enough to carry them at all invariably have a purse or wallet bulging with them.
  • | Reply | Permalink couldn't agree more, swarty ... some ill-advised stuff, for sure. they're back on topic now, thanks to edwards, who's playing quite the peace-maker role tonight ... The Dem Debate In South Carolina Is Underway...
  • Nyjer Morgan led off the inning with a bunt single which was actually misplayed by Capuano, who made an ill-advised attempt to swipe at Morgan with his glove, rather than make the safer play and throw to first, but Morgan was wiped out on a double play grounder from Ian Desmond. Live blog: Nationals at Mets, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
  • Weiner compounded his predicament by calling a cable TV producer a jackass, reeling off a string of ill-advised, double-entendre wiener jokes and essentially reducing what he calls a "prank" to NY Daily News
  • What terrifies me is that I don't see a great deal of difference in the general ill-advisedness of having either Sarah Palin or Mary Carey as a leader, aside from the fact that Carey ran as a joke and Palin might actually believe she's qualified. Gram Ponante: Porn Valley Observed
  • There is little point in attempting anything practical: boiling a kettle on the living room floor is ill-advised with three pre-schoolers tugging at the flex.
  • The other are a bunch of stadium-hogging egocentrics whose lead singer has almost bankrupt the band on two separate occasions due to ill-advised property investments.
  • Clear scientific evidence can be used to support either side of this chestnut-flavored debate, so appeals to the indisputability of one view or another are ill-advised. Balkinization
  • The postings on Facebook were ill-advised and to the best of our knowledge have all been removed - it is only others who are reposting these images.
  • It goes without saying that shoppers who are ill-advised enough to carry them at all invariably have a purse or wallet bulging with them.
  • But it certainly didn't feel like it at the time", referring to the unrequited loves, an ill-advised brief engagement and other romantic incidents that fill her diary when she was in her twenties. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Yet we would be ill-advised to dismiss any of them.
  • On the page and on the screen, "Kick-Ass" riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life. PaloAltoOnline.com
  • Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • He laid a board-rattling bodycheck, absorbed a couple of hits, took an ill-advised holding penalty and didn't score in a 2-1 loss to a Mississauga Rebels team with a few OHL prospects of its own. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • We should all hope that Sir John does not give in to this ill-advised bullying.
  • Even if the Flash intro does convey useful information, this is still ill-advised, which allows me to segue nicely to my next point.
  • It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment, and in believing it to undermine the opt-out.
  • Consider her demeanour when she emerged from the courtroom after hearing her guilty verdict wearing that ill-advised dyed chinchilla scarf.
  • Any gentleman who would bag himself a Snake lady would be ill-advised to seem too available.
  • Immediately after having applied such shameful language to a man respectable compared with himself, he considers him as an irrefragable witness, because Boindin — whose unhappy temper was well known — left an ill-written and exceedingly ill-advised memorial, in which he accuses La Motte — one of the worthiest men in the world, a geometrician, and an ironmonger — with having written the infamous verses for which A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
  • The cutesy, mincing vocals are dotted with ill-advised wailing and occasional outright mimicry of dudes like Beck.
  • One of their mutts ill-advisedly chased the deviant, and by the time the owner caught up, the man had engaged the pet in some hot heritage dry moating. The Register
  • In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
  • And given Senator Clinton's ill-advised speech Tuesday night, I don't think any Clinton supporter should be talking about "graceless" behavior. Poll: Hillary's Favorability Rating Among Blacks Dropped 26 Points
  • The 1884 slugfest also serves as a reminder that a single ill-advised sentence from a warm-up speaker or a campaign surrogate can easily explode into a full-scale flap when time and partisan tempers are short.
  • This is not an ill-advised comment on an internet forum. The Sun
  • One ill-advised, briefcase-swinging charge at a tormentor had earned me forever the nickname Ferdinand the Bull, soon shortened to Ferd the Nerd. LIGHT FINGERS
  • I suspect they privately think his comments were ill-advised but were loath to lose a second top Senate leader over casual remarks in the space of six months.
  • The bank claims that the company's losses are the result of an ill-advised decision to declare bankruptcy.
  • Pussycat Club Ibiza Reunion Party, BrightonAs the fabled White Isle prepares to wind down the beach brolly on another season, it's time to fondly reminisce over backs painfully sunburnt after an afternoon's topless scootering and credit cards maxed out after that ill-advised round of drinks with your new bezzie mates. Clubs picks of the week
  • This is delicate but to be encouraged (though Americans would be ill-advised to go anywhere near such a program with aid dollars).
  • The shows are a real pot luck option, oscillating between greatest hits group shows and ill-advised solo outings.

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