Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Imprudently; indiscreetly; without due consideration; rashly.

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  • adverb In an unadvised manner.

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  • adverb in an unadvised manner

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Examples

  • A word unadvisedly spoken on the one side, or misunderstood on the other; any the least surmise of neglect; sometimes a bare gesture; nay, the very unsuitableness of one man's aspect to another man's fancy, has raised such an aversion to him, as in time has produced a perfect hatred of him; and that so strong and so tenacious, that it has never left vexing and troubling him, till perhaps at length it has worried him to his grave; yea, and after death too, has pursued him in his surviving shadow, exercising the same tyranny upon his very name and memory.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • My Wife and Harshest Critic has somewhat belatedly pointed out to me that what I unadvisedly called a museum of pornography was in fact a gallery of pre-Columbian erotic pottery in the Larco Museum in Lima.

    Machu Picchu - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • But Obama and his supporters have rudely, unadvisedly, thoughtlessly backed him as the candidate for change.

    Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake' 2008

  • As an individual investor, plunking all your savings into any single thing, whether it be gold or a stock, is always unadvisedly risky.

    Why Dave Is Now a Goldbug Dave Kansas 2010

  • However, I had not a fit for more than a year and a half till this summer; and then it did not take me unadvisedly.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • One for the Knuckles the Malevolent Nun fans: Cornelius Stone has (perhaps unadvisedly) allowed Sister Knuckles to put up her own MySpace page.

    Further Ado Roger Langridge 2007

  • One for the Knuckles the Malevolent Nun fans: Cornelius Stone has (perhaps unadvisedly) allowed Sister Knuckles to put up her own MySpace page.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Roger Langridge 2007

  • Marriage is an honorable estate: and therefore is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, and soberly.

    Vows Sean 2008

  • Why didst thou break in so hastily and unadvisedly upon the argument with which I was prostrating yonder heretic?

    The Monastery 2008

  • He saw now too well what the spirit had darkly indicated, that, in granting the boon which he had asked so unadvisedly, she had contributed more to his harm than his good.

    The Monastery 2008

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