These intelligence tests were used injudiciously for many years. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an injudicious decision. From Dictionary.com.
SELL UNIVERSALIS, if taken "injudiciously," and administered with judgment, will kill the aged, and remove the youthful. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890] Reference
"injudiciously" in reporting the problems at Northern Rock, the committee heard. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Nora Costello, who is so injudiciously religious, and then poor. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Fever came on, aggravated by the brandy injudiciously administered. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
I've been helping you a little; I flatter myself not injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
At Merle Park Tom was cosseted and spoilt by the women very injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
If injudiciously taken, sugar may, however, injure the child's appetite and digestion. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
"Northmannorum" giving the proper title, which we have injudiciously softened into Norman. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
"It's not as if they're ever going to have to do anything, sir," Blade said injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
In their discussion respecting money Mr Scruby injudiciously mentioned the name of Mr Tombe. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
Russia injudiciously and ungratefully insisted on depriving Rumania of the portion of Rumanian. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Her poems -- which we think injudiciously published -- place her far down among the multitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
But we, if we injudiciously determine to honor the brave man, shall incur the charge of folly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
'You're a much better actress than you make out,' he found himself saying, perhaps injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [Not the End of the World]
Reeve muttered angrily, stamping up the steps injudiciously, jarring his sore body even through the analgesia. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
He did not attempt historical painting; and here Sir Joshua contrasts him with Hogarth; who did so injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
Our muskrat-hunters partook injudiciously of this unaccustomed dainty, and were visited with indescribable Nemesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
Another Dutchman, curiously enough, was injured slightly while injudiciously exposing himself on top of a debris heap. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
The affair was injudiciously managed, and, before all could be fired, the flames of one alarmed the British in the fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
I gave Corporal Dulange my card -- injudiciously, as it turned out -- and I assumed that I would never see the man again. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
This yearning is probably one of the good but misconceived appetites so injudiciously fed by the gossip of the daily press. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The play, reader, is extant in choice English, and you will employ a spare half-crown not injudiciously in the quest of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
Minniemashie House, an occasion for menus printed in gold (but injudiciously proof-read), for free cigars, soft damp slabs of Lake. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Through dietary ignorance or a desire to save his pocket, she fed them so frugally and injudiciously that they all developed rickets. From Wordnik.com. [Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots] Reference
I still find these exertions painful because the soles of my feet are not yet quite healed and my shoulder hurts me if I move it injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
Koornhof said if the decision by the NSC was applied incorrectly and injudiciously, it would have a negative effect on sport and sport achievements. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Amaranthé was well-grown, lively, and not ill-tempered, notwithstanding having been always injudiciously flattered and indulged by her doating governess. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
Very injudiciously, the officers proceeded at once to Judge Gould's office, although it was evident they would have to pass through an excited, unreasonable crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet, the Moses of Her People] Reference
And that sort of thing, you know, sometimes they speak injudiciously and without discretion and they turn it back on them, just as if they were taking over something. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Julius Fry, August 19, 1974. Interview E-0004. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Bating the fines which he injudiciously levied you have exactly the programme for enforcing which he was shot, as you would probably be if you attempted anything of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Indeed the barbarity of destroying the legislative buildings, the White House and the public libraries of Washington has been harped upon most sentimentally and injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
It is not unlikely, therefore, that they were misapprehended at the time; and it is most probable that they have been related as incorrectly, as they were noticed injudiciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Clearly he spoke injudiciously in 2008, when he stood up in an audience and called U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
By comparison, the very small loan to Northern Rock was injudiciously leaked to the BBC. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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