Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking or showing a lack of judgment or discretion; unwise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not judicious in thought, speech, or action; deficient in judgment; imprudent: as, an injudicious ally.
  • Not judicious in character or kind; ill-judged or ill-advised; contrary to sound judgment or discretion; unwise: as, an injudicious measure.
  • Synonyms Indiscreet, inconsiderate, imprudent, rash, hasty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise.
  • adjective Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Showing poor judgement; not well judged.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise

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Examples

  • We admit that the motives of those who conduct public promiscuous developing circles are good in most cases, but their methods are frequently 'injudicious' -- to put it mildly.

    Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • Claiming that this was a brave moral act and contrasting himself with Mrs. Clinton's "injudicious" vote as a senator to authorize the war strains credibility and echoes the dishonesty of his "I didn't hear it in the pew" excuse.

    Sylvia Welsh: Honesty Not Race, Expediency Not Courage 2008

  • Randy Hamud represented Awadallah in the courtroom, in that hearing in October 2001, and he was taken aback by the "injudicious" conduct of Judge Mukasey.

    David Bromwich: Would It Be Torture If It Was Done to You? 2008

  • Those who suppose that it is wiser to gloss over this or that, and who consider it "injudicious" to announce the whole truth in connection with Christianity, should have learnt by this time that no admission which can by any possibility be required of them can be so perilous to the cause of

    The Fair Haven Samuel Butler 1868

  • Second biggest cause of fatal accidents, to blame for 31 per cent, is the "injudicious action", an umbrella term for "travelled too fast for the conditions' (15.9 per cent of those labelled injudicious), "exceeded speed limit" (13.9 per cent) or "disobeyed give-way or stop sign" (2.1 per cent)?

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Second biggest cause of fatal accidents, to blame for 31 per cent, is the "injudicious action", an umbrella term for "travelled too fast for the conditions' (15.9 per cent of those labelled injudicious), "exceeded speed limit" (13.9 per cent) or "disobeyed give-way or stop sign" (2.1 per cent)?

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • In a 1948 review essay republished in Race and History, he demolished E. Merton Coulter's The South During Reconstruction by demonstrating in painstaking fashion that Coulter had used his evidence selectively, made generalizations that his evidence would not support, misquoted or distorted some of the sources that he did use, and had been "injudicious" in his lurid and obviously biased descriptions of the performance of black voters and office holders. [

    Pioneer Fredrickson, George M. 1993

  • Instead Paley's argument has been sidetracked by attacks or its injudicious examples and off-the-point theological discussions.

    Behe 2009

  • Certainly music history has been littered with similarly broad and injudicious barbs whose vitriol often flows out of pent-up professional rivalry.

    Nordic Exposure at Bard Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Very able men in nearly all the southern States have made very able arguments against rash and injudicious action….

    Craig Symonds: How did the Northern newspapers treat the news of South Carolina's secession? Craig Symonds 2011

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