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Definition of ill-advised in English: ill-advisedadjective ˌɪlədˈvʌɪzdˈˌɪl ədˈvaɪzd Not sensible, wise, or prudent. you would be ill-advised to go on your own Example sentencesExamples - This is delicate but to be encouraged (though Americans would be ill-advised to go anywhere near such a program with aid dollars).
- Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour.
- However, when purchasing cloves - and they're readily available in most supermarkets and food shops - you will be ill-advised to buy the ground variety.
- Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
- How do you prove that a person has acted in a particular way because of another's race, gender or whatever, unless the perpetrator has been ill-advised enough to say so?
- Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
Synonyms unwise, injudicious, misguided, imprudent, impolitic, incautious, ill-considered, ill-judged, ill-conceived, ill-thought-out, badly planned, inexpedient foolhardy, hare-brained, rash, hasty, overhasty, short-sighted, thoughtless, unthinking, careless, reckless foolish, silly, asinine, wrong-headed informal crazy, crackpot, crackbrained, cock-eyed British informal daft
Derivatives adverbˌɪlədˈvʌɪzɪdli If people think that civil servants or ministers put their minds to this ill-advisedly then they couldn't be more wrong. Example sentencesExamples - The Donner Pass was named after the emigrants from the Midwest who ill-advisedly brought their wagon train up through these mountains in 1844 and had to resort to cannibalism to survive the winter.
- The Coast Guard, by the way, unfortunately - and in my opinion, ill-advisedly - sank this wonderful contraption that was a vehicle for freedom for these people.
- He decided to curb his alcohol consumption and ill-advisedly he turned to the heavy use of cannabis.
- It was ill-advisedly set up by Pats (who, incidentally, has never properly apologised for the horror she inflicted on me).
Definition of ill-advised in US English: ill-advisedadjectiveˈˌil ədˈvīzdˈˌɪl ədˈvaɪzd Unwise or imprudent. you would be ill-advised to go on your own Example sentencesExamples - How do you prove that a person has acted in a particular way because of another's race, gender or whatever, unless the perpetrator has been ill-advised enough to say so?
- This is delicate but to be encouraged (though Americans would be ill-advised to go anywhere near such a program with aid dollars).
- Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
- Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour.
- Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
- However, when purchasing cloves - and they're readily available in most supermarkets and food shops - you will be ill-advised to buy the ground variety.
Synonyms unwise, injudicious, misguided, imprudent, impolitic, incautious, ill-considered, ill-judged, ill-conceived, ill-thought-out, badly planned, inexpedient |