An injudicious measure. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an injudicious decision. From Dictionary.com.
Randy Hamud represented Awadallah in the courtroom, in that hearing in October 2001, and he was taken aback by the "injudicious" conduct of Judge Mukasey. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Would It Be Torture If It Was Done to You?] Reference
Muriel's injudicious remarks had made a bad matter worse. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
He is represented blind and lame, injudicious and fearful. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Prospect now very hopeful if no injudicious steps are taken. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
An injudicious remark might break the thread of his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
It is quite unnecessary to turn to an injudicious letter from. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
But in both are intermixed several injudicious popular reports. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The fact is, my sister is not treacherous, but she is injudicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
Governor Tod is damaging the old regiments by injudicious promotions. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
He made his preparations in silence, and not an injudicious word escaped him. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The plan was not by any means an injudicious one, and its failure was almost marvellous. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
And then Gould was an injudicious flatterer; he made the flattered fellow uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
The reason is plain: to the portraying of madness, the injudicious can imagine no limits. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Good voices are often injured by injudicious management on the part of some incompetent instructor. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Thus, not for the first time, has a cause or truth been wounded and discredited by injudicious advocacy. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
Washington himself, Hamilton and Adams, and led to measures of restriction that were injudicious in their severity. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Sara roundly when the latter ventured an injudicious inquiry as to whether Lester Kent were still in the neighbourhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Such conditions were, for instance, injudicious modes of life, exposure to climatic changes, advancing age, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The agent of conciliation was judicious, clear-headed, and tactful, instead of being injudicious, hot-headed, and tactless. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The best of pigments may be ruined by their injudicious use, and obtain a character for fugacity which they in no way deserve. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Notwithstanding this, he was married twice; but was so injudicious in his choice of wives, that he was compelled to divorce both. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Mr. Flower, for this injudicious zeal, was heavily ironed, and put into the gatehouse at Westminster; and afterward summoned before bishop. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Immediate contradiction is, therefore, wholly unserviceable, and highly imprudent; an after repetition is equally unnecessary and injudicious. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Had Mr Patmore's injudicious friends not thought proper to announce him to the world as the brightest rising star in the poetical firmament of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
It impressed me at the time as being a thinly veneered command, and I remember fearing lest the artist should be injudicious enough to disregard it. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
England, and the course pursued by Monroe was considered injudicious, as tending to throw serious obstacles in the way of the proposed negotiations. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Hence, these injudicious artificial regulations, however seemingly well-intentioned, only gave rise to ill-feeling, mistrust and eventually resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
And he too often thinks as little of the effects of an impure atmosphere or injudicious admixture, as the chemist considers the action of air and light. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
They brought delicacies, often prepared by their own hands or in their own kitchens, and were undoubtedly injudicious, sometimes, in their administration. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Dr. Angell always believed in the tendency of the right to prevail, and was willing to wait with a "masterly inactivity," avoiding too much injudicious assistance. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
Men can never be permanently and effectually disgraced but by themselves, and rarely endangered but by their own injudicious conduct, giving advantage to the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Christopher been at all morbid or of a dreamy disposition it might have been a very injudicious fancy: but he was the personification of good health and robust spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
If we weigh the merit of original authors, some we shall find careless and injudicious, and many write under the bias of party prejudice, which strangely perverts the judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
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