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Among these were “Swinging the Arms, and all other awkward gestures,” “Drumming with feet or hands in Company,” “All actions that have the most remote tendency to Indelicacy,” “All instances of that ill-judged Familiarity, which breeds contempt,” and “every thing which may be called Sluttish or Slovenly.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

There will be many who will believe it, particularly after learning of the extremely ill-judged Christmas social contacts between News Corp executives and the prime minister.

BSkyB: Impossible undertakings | Editorial 2011

Producer Brian True-May's ill-judged comments about it representing "the last bastion of Englishness" have caused a predictable storm and counter-storm, with one side crying racism and the other crying about the cries of racism.

Charlie Brooker: Midsomer's plain daft. So why might adding brown faces make viewers suspend disbelief? 2011

Credit Suisse is paying the price for an ill-judged hiring spree in 2009 which Chief Executive Brady Dougan was too slow to reverse in the face of weak markets and regulatory headwinds.

Credit Suisse's Fall From Grace Simon Nixon 2012

Yet the bank's returns on tangible equity are among the lowest of any major European bank, a reflection of the structural unprofitability of the Italian market and exacerbated by Mr. Profumo's ill-judged acquisition of Capitalia in 2007.

UniCredit's Boardroom Fiasco Simon Nixon 2010

Here the author aggrandizes the stereotype of the lazy nobleman—a familiar figure from Spanish literature—beyond its value for the question at hand, and his passing endorsement of "blood" as a determinant of character seems ill-judged.

A Peaceable Canvas Jonathan Lopez 2011

Osborne said the EU needed a reality check, while the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander described the request as ill-judged and unwise.

David Cameron vows to fight proposed EU budget rise 2011

Wodehouse, famously, discovered this in Berlin in 1941: he made his ill-judged broadcasts in part to reassure his American fans that he was alive and well.

The Booker prize is just another flea circus for writers Robert McCrum 2010

Holden had just managed to break into the Bolton side when, playing a friendly against Holland in March as part of the USA World Cup preparations, an ill-judged tackle of the type that earned Nigel de Jong the nickname "Lawnmower" left him with a broken leg.

Bolton's Stuart Holden: 'I got the x-ray results and thought: not again' 2011

Cereste's letter regarding Jackson's comments on development in the town was "unfortunate and ill-judged", wrote Jackson in a letter to the local Evening Telegraph.

Diary Hugh Muir 2010