Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking or exhibiting a lack of wisdom; foolish or imprudent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not wise; Lacking wisdom or judgment; foolish; indiscreet: as, an unwise man; unwise kings.
- Not dictated by wisdom; not adapted to the desired end; injudicious; imprudent: as, unwise measures; unwise delay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
wise ; defective inwisdom ;injudicious ;indiscreet ;foolish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not appropriate to the purpose
- adjective showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom
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Examples
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Vladimir Romanov, the owner of Hearts, has launched another colourful attack on the Scottish football establishment as he responded to what he called the "unwise" Scottish Premier League ruling on his club's failure to pay players on time.
Vladimir Romanov blasts 'monkeys' in charge of Scottish football 2012
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The Republicans say that the Democrats are closer than theyll admit to corporate interests and were too quick to go along with what they called an unwise and unjust war.
40 More Years James Carville with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2009
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BOLDUAN: Also in the hearing, Robert Nabors, the deputy director of OMB, he seemed to indirectly criticize states for making what he called unwise choices to simply use stimulus money to balance their budgets, Kiran.
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BOLDUAN: Also in the hearing, Robert Nabors seemed to criticize states for making what he called unwise choices to simply use money to balance the budgets.
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BOLDUAN: Also in that hearing, Robert Nabors, the president's deputy director of OMB, he seemed to criticize states for making what he called unwise choices to simply use stimulus money to balance their budgets.
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The Republicans say that the Democrats are closer than theyll admit to corporate interests and were too quick to go along with what they called an unwise and unjust war.
40 More Years James Carville with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2009
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BOLDUAN: Now, also in that hearing, Rob Nabors, the White House's deputy budget director, he seemed to criticize states for making what he called unwise choices to simply use stimulus money to balance their budgets.
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The Iranian government said it would respond to what it called unwise measures.
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Patriotic ordinary Americans can be employed in unwise or unjust causes.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Washington Post Editorializes in Praise of Harold Koh’s Drone Statement 2010
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From this time on little groups felt in unwise to wander about unprotected so they gathered up into tribes built a bloody great ditch and snuggled down behind it to enjoy the unalloyed pleasure of keeping all their stuff ..
Archive 2007-08-19 Newmania 2007
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