Adjective, : an unwise choice; an unwise man. From Dictionary.com.
My parents wouldn't let me buy a sword at 12 even though I had saved up all my money, as they feared I would use it 'unwisely' - like against other people. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams: Erotic, Fantastic, Mundane, Frail] Reference
Perhaps you misread the word 'unwisely' to mean stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Wild ...] Reference
I never want to read sentences that begin with "unwisely". From Wordnik.com. [Later On] Reference
Her donation to the family on the street of 250 as if she gave him a large sum of money he would spend it 'unwisely' left me speechless. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
When your nephew picked a quarrel with me, he acted unwisely. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
When used unwisely, they can result in permanent hearing loss. From Wordnik.com. [iPods and headphones: The gift of deafness?] Reference
He unwisely signed a check, badly overdrawing his private account. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
"They won't touch a hair of your heads now," she boasted unwisely. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
As for a majority using its power unwisely, elections can remedy that. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens When Congress Fails to Do Its Job?] Reference
At least I prefer to write unwisely rather than to be silent unkindly. '. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
No one of us can elect to love a little wisely, or unwisely and too well. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
With the most loyal intentions, the Port-Royalists unwisely edited too much. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Oberlin to consider further concerning the asylum that had been so unwisely closed. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
If your verdict is against me, I ask no mercy; I desire none if I have acted unwisely. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
“Tell us what happened,” instructs the Dean unwisely, unleashing a long, whining tale. From Wordnik.com. [My son, the violent homosexual] Reference
One word spoken unwisely may forever shut the door of salvation for some eternity-bound soul. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
Few governors have favoured, few senators voted for more unwisely lavish expenditures than he. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But, unwisely employed, it is a more terrible thief of time even than Young's 'procrastination.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Unfortunately, Ricciardone carries a major liability that the Obama Administration unwisely ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Harut Sassounian: Senators Block Ambassadors to Azerbaijan and Turkey] Reference
She made another appeal at the supper table; her sister unwisely interjected a sympathetic "too bad.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The poor lady now saw the end of her dream of rehabilitating the fallen fortunes of the man she had so unwisely married. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
To do this he had unwisely removed the rocket from its stick, and, unfortunately, he fastened it in the chimney upside down. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
When Kellogg finally started offering dollar-off coupons, it unwisely slashed advertising, depriving its cereals of attention. From Wordnik.com. [Crunch Time At Kellogg] Reference
In fact, we unwisely took the possibility of a limited military strike on North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor off the table. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Peas For North Korea] Reference
The mosquito-nets cut off a good deal of air, and people are tempted to discard them unwisely when the nights are intensely hot. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Mr. Luttrell, with his cane, takes the heads off two unoffending crocuses that, most unwisely, have started up within his reach. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
But if used unwisely, the genetic engineering of human beings could endanger everything we value -- including who and what we are. From Wordnik.com. [A Cure That May Cost Us Ourselves] Reference
We have, he says with some bitterness, 'treated them unfairly as well as unwisely, and we never forgive those whom we have injured.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
I had been too crushed and dazed by the ill news to think before of my imprudence; but now I realized how very unwisely I had acted. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
So saying, she displayed the girdle and ring which Siegfried had unwisely given her when he confided to her the story of Gunther's wooing. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Less than a month into the Obama presidency, Biden forthrightly, if unwisely, declared that the new administration's economic plan had a "30 percent chance" of failure. From Wordnik.com. [An Inconvenient Truth Teller] Reference
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