ill-considered love

Definitions

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

  • adjective Unwise; foolish.

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  • adjective not given careful consideration

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Examples

  • The Monitor Group, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass., said in a statement earlier in the day that it had provided "research support" for the dissertation, a step it described as "ill-considered."

    London School of Economics head resigns over school's Libyan ties 2011

  • The Monitor Group, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass., said in a statement earlier in the day that it had provided "research support" for the dissertation, a step it described as "ill-considered."

    London School of Economics head resigns over school's Libyan ties 2011

  • The Monitor Group, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass., said in a statement earlier in the day that it had provided "research support" for the dissertation, a step it described as "ill-considered."

    London School of Economics head resigns over school's Libyan ties 2011

  • I was in the progressive wing of the Senate, and we had used filibusters periodically to stop some of the excesses of the Nixon administration and to kill ill-considered antibusing legislation when the country was in a panicky backlash against school integration.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I was in the progressive wing of the Senate, and we had used filibusters periodically to stop some of the excesses of the Nixon administration and to kill ill-considered antibusing legislation when the country was in a panicky backlash against school integration.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I was in the progressive wing of the Senate, and we had used filibusters periodically to stop some of the excesses of the Nixon administration and to kill ill-considered antibusing legislation when the country was in a panicky backlash against school integration.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The strain on one's system of two consecutive days of heavy drinking caused by rhetorical and nonsensical talking points from those who could care less about things like consumers, competition, lower prices and innovation would make the drinking seem ill-considered.

    Art Brodsky: The Coming GOP War On the Open Internet -- Not a Drinking Game Art Brodsky 2011

  • Some of the worst occurred in the crucial scene in which devilish Iachimo (Adrian LaTourelle) goads pure-hearted Posthumus (Mark Bedard) into an ill-considered bet over the fidelity of Posthumus's love, Imogen (Gretchen Hall).

    'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic Peter Marks 2011

  • Setting aside the crimes behind Watergate, his policies were ill-considered and damaging.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010

  • The strain on one's system of two consecutive days of heavy drinking caused by rhetorical and nonsensical talking points from those who could care less about things like consumers, competition, lower prices and innovation would make the drinking seem ill-considered.

    Art Brodsky: The Coming GOP War On the Open Internet -- Not a Drinking Game Art Brodsky 2011

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