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unˈwisely, adv.
[OE. unwíslíce (un-1 11), = MDu. onwiselike, -lijc (Du. onwijslijk), MLG. unwîslike, OHG. unwíslîhho (MHG. -wislîche, G. -weislich), MSw. ovislika, Norw. uvislege, Da. -lig.]
In an unwise, injudicious, or foolish manner; imprudently, foolishly.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xv. 93 Ðæt is ðæt he hie ᵹedweleð & unwislice ᵹeiecð ða idelnesse. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 232 Ᵹif hio bið unwislice to lange forlæten. a1225Ancr. R. 338 Þauh no mon hit nute, oðer wolde þet ei hit wuste, oðer ȝemeleasliche do hit, oðer to unwisliche, to muchel, oðer to lutel. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 270 Þanne wrouȝte I vnwisly, wiþ alle þe wyt þat I lere. c1375Cursor M. 27047 (Fairf.), Þe þrid letting makis mani mad quen þai vn-wiseli ar drad after rising to falle againe. c1440Jacob's Well 286 Þe hermyte thouȝte þat þis was vnwysely don. c1455Pecock Folewer 60 Holdyng him silf to seie trewli and wiseli, whanne he seieþ vntrewli and vnwiseli. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 309 Kynge Rycharde, walkyng vnwysely about the castell to espye the feblenes therof. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xx, Some unwisely liberall, that more delight to give presentes, then pay debtes. 1605Chapman All Fools iii. i. 471 Since you have usd the matter so unwisely. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. (1702) I. 112 Every man unwisely thought him whom he found an Enemy to his Enemies, a Friend to all his other affections. 1744Thomson Spring 136 The skilful Farmer..Nor..The little trooping Birds unwisely scares. 1774Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. 47 If intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government. 1805Wordsw. Ode to Duty iii, They..who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 389 The same story of authority unwisely caught at and unwisely used. 1899B. Harraden Fowler iii. i, An unwisely-worded disparagement. |