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/ɪndʒuːdˈɪʃəs/
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[ US /ˌɪnˌdʒəˈdɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˌdʒəˈdɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise
the result of an injudicious decision
an injudicious measure
How To Use injudicious In A Sentence
- Mr. Orszag injudiciously told the Washington Post's Ezra Klein that the provision represents "the largest yielding of sovereignty from the Congress since the creation of the Federal Reserve. A Spending Nudge, or a Fudge?
- The excellent results from the method described in the foregoing paragraph has relegated laryngostomy to those cases that come in with a severe cicatricial stenosis from an injudicious laryngofissure; and even in these cases cure of the stenosis as well as the papillomata can usually be obtained by endoscopic methods alone, using superficial scalping off of the papillomata with subsequent laryngoscopic bouginage for the stenosis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- He recognises, however, that it would be politically injudicious to speak of leaving just after having secured a mandate.
- Less happily, John's grandfather had, in 1860, felt an injudicious urge for grandeur on a larger scale. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Cable had spoken injudiciously to the reporters, who had pretended to be constituents, about his attempts to block the media tycoon's takeover of BSkyB, of which he already has partial ownership. It takes two to tango – but can Vince Cable and Lib Dem ministers stay in step with the Tories?
- Let's don't worry about whether he spent $14000 injudiciously. Baucus spokesman confirms Hanes pay raise
- Lamb in his appreciativeness; but one cannot accuse him of injudicious excess when he says of Brome: The Art of Letters
- Love makes us do and say the silliest things, and my friend has been quite injudicious in his wholehearted leap into a new enthusiasm.
- But when crossing is practiced injudiciously and indiscriminately, and especially when so done for the purpose of procuring _breeding animals_, it cannot be too severely censured, and is scarcely less objectionable than careless in-and-in breeding. The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals
- Each individual had a unique humoral balance which could be easily disrupted by conditions such as cold, biting winds, poor air, or injudicious eating.