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How To Use imprudent In A Sentence

• Ja’afar had also acted generously but imprudently in abetting the escape of Yahya bin Abdillah, Sayyid and Alide, for whom the Caliph had commanded confinement in a close dark dungeon: when charged with disobedience the Wazir had made full confession and Harun had (they say) exclaimed, “Thou hast done well!” but was heard to mutter, “Allah slay me an I slay thee not.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• It is, however, often imprudent and officious to try and fix the problems and arbitrate the quarrels of strangers.
• Her response is understandable, if imprudent.
• It is imprudent of presidents and trustees to approve budgets that were not crafted by those with the relevant academic and fiscal know-how.
• This very journey of his up to London would be most imprudent, if it should become necessary for him to give up all hope of holding the prebend. Framley Parsonage
• would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy
• I have merely decided that such a move would be imprudent at this time.
• His logic was that opponents would be deceived by the ship's appearance, and make rash and imprudent mistakes during confrontation.
• It would be imprudent of the Pentagon not to be developing contingency plans.
• Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles